Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:35:54 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? Message-ID: <4A4E174A.1050207@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <20090703142528.GA11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20090703142528.GA11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On 2009-07-03 16:25, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> On a current server with 512 MB /, the filesystem is at
> 97% after installing a new kernel twice. Can I get rid of
> these files somehow or are they necessary, in which case
> I will need way bigger root filesystems?
>
> I mean, get rid automatically and never install them again.
> I know the chflags and rm commands ;-) But then the question
> of they are needed is still open.
You can find this in /usr/src/UPDATING:
20060118:
This actually occured some time ago, but installing the kernel
now also installs a bunch of symbol files for the kernel modules.
This increases the size of /boot/kernel to about 67Mbytes. You
will need twice this if you will eventually back this up to kernel.old
on your next install.
If you have a shortage of room in your root partition, you should add
-DINSTALL_NODEBUG to your make arguments or add INSTALL_NODEBUG="yes"
to your /etc/make.conf.
However, you should consider increasing the size of your root
partition, if possible. It can be extremely handy to have symbol files
available whenever there's a crash. :)
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