Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 06:16:40 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem Message-ID: <20081204191640.GH58682@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <49362A3C.7060204@fusiongol.com> References: <49362A3C.7060204@fusiongol.com>
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--FCF9ydJxlAJsfRTu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2008-Dec-03 15:42:04 +0900, Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com> wro= te: >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. Are you running i386 or amd64? 360MB _is_ a very tight fit for amd64 but you should make it unless you have some large, unexpected files lying around in your root partition. As a workaround, you could remove *.symbols from the old kernel files. >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. Looking at sysinstall, the default size is currently 512MB unless you have less than ~20GB, when it will start scaling down. Your options are: 1) Expand root (maybe use growfs and eat into your swap) 2) Avoid building unwanted modules via MODULES_OVERRIDE. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --FCF9ydJxlAJsfRTu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk4LJgACgkQ/opHv/APuId7LACeNHWvj78oA60ZCJmr/MjnVsEH I3UAn2JOYZvHxS7btPbtjoeRtH8N3+R5 =h2jt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCF9ydJxlAJsfRTu--
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