From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 09:24:08 2008 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 640281065675 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:24:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@simons-rock.edu) Received: from hedwig.simons-rock.edu (hedwig.simons-rock.edu [208.81.88.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23EE28FC0A for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:24:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@simons-rock.edu) Received: from cesium.hyperfine.info (c2.8d.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.141.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hedwig.simons-rock.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97EDED0DC; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 04:24:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 04:20:24 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: Ruben de Groot , Nathan Butcher , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081204092024.GW27780@cesium.hyperfine.info> References: <49362A3C.7060204@fusiongol.com> <1660_1228381770_49379E4A_1660_278_1_20081204090859.GA16512@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1660_1228381770_49379E4A_1660_278_1_20081204090859.GA16512@ei.bzerk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Subject: Re: sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem 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: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:24:08 -0000 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 ===========================================================