Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 04:20:24 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" <peter@simons-rock.edu> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem Message-ID: <20081204092024.GW27780@cesium.hyperfine.info> In-Reply-To: <1660_1228381770_49379E4A_1660_278_1_20081204090859.GA16512@ei.bzerk.org> References: <49362A3C.7060204@fusiongol.com> <1660_1228381770_49379E4A_1660_278_1_20081204090859.GA16512@ei.bzerk.org>
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Might be helpful to remember that /root is on /, so if you're in the habit of leaving stuff in /root for doing sysadmin tasks, it can kill / pretty quickly... On 2008-12-04 10:08:59AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > /boot/kernel is ~118 MB on my system (including debugging symbols). > Default size of the root partition created by sysinstall is 512 MB, in your > case downsized to 360 to accomodate other partitions on your 8GB disk. > Should still be enough though. Do you have any other big files hanging > around in your root partition? > > Ruben > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +0900, Nathan Butcher typed: > > Automatic labelling on 7.0 created about 360MB for my root partition on > > a 8GB disk. After a buildkernel into 7.1-PRERELEASE, the root partition > > was exhausted during the installkernel. > > > > Maybe automatic labelling in sysinstall needs to allocate more than > > 360MB in the root (/) partition if it's going to stay big enough to > > accomodate a buildkernel and installkernel from source. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- =========================================================== Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon's Rock Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd. Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428 ===========================================================
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