Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:29:08 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010206162702.98384I-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200102061811.f16IBa984554@harmony.village.org>
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Actually, I've been having continuing problems with root partitions that are two small. I can now no longer fit three kernels on a root partition with the default GENERIC kernel build (that would be /boot/kernel.SAFE, /boot/kernel.old, and /boot/kernel). There are a few things we can do about it, including bumping the default root partition size, getting rid of lots of redundant code between kernel and modules, attempting to shrink the binaries/binary size on the root partition in various ways (shared libraries, more crunching/etc, and so on). In any case, I think it is now becoming a real problem, and as we get more modules, it won't become less of a problem. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20010206031638.A23278@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > : Then until just recently you not been creating properly sliced disk (no > : matter how much you think you have been). Also, just because you are > : comformatable with fdisk+disklable doesn't mean most of our users are.... > > I've been using diskprep to create properly sliced disks for a long > time... > > Since /stand can be nuked from orbit by folks having problems, I have > no objections to moving sysinstall to /sbin. Or rather my diskspace > argument is a little weak there. But in almost all cases, it doesn't > matter if it is on / or /usr. The only time it does matter is if you > are in single user mode and cannot for some reason mount /usr, which > is very rare. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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