From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 3 14:41:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D916C1065688 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685638FC12 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by kagate1.punkt.de with ESMTP id n63EfSaH051241 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:41:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n63EfLsq012035; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:41:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n63EfLsL012034; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:41:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:41:21 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" To: Dimitry Andric Message-ID: <20090703144121.GC11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20090703142528.GA11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A4E174A.1050207@andric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4A4E174A.1050207@andric.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:41:35 -0000 Hello, On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > 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. Thanks a lot. I've been searching the handbook and Google for at least one hour. > 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. :) But I thought, they were in the kernel itself? %file /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/kernel: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped "not stripped" - i.e. "with debug symbols". Wrong? Since when? Thanks, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 info@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285