Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:04:07 +0900 From: Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem Message-ID: <49389A27.8040704@fusiongol.com> In-Reply-To: <20081204191640.GH58682@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <49362A3C.7060204@fusiongol.com> <20081204191640.GH58682@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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> 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. Running amd64. The install was fresh so there were no extra files in / > Looking at sysinstall, the default size is currently 512MB unless you > have less than ~20GB, when it will start scaling down. maybe it needs to scale down just a little bit less than it already does.... although granted, not every install is going to experience a kernal recompile from source - well, ones that expect to be maintained anyway. > Your options are: > 1) Expand root (maybe use growfs and eat into your swap) > 2) Avoid building unwanted modules via MODULES_OVERRIDE. Fair enough. This issue just bit me in the behind because I was expecting the 7.1 kernal and modules to take up about as much space as 7.0 ... but then I remember that dtrace found it's way into 7.1 plus a whole lotta code....
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