From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 05:36:12 2007 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 5EF8516A417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from optimus.centralmiss.com (ns.centralmiss.com [206.156.254.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356C213C45D for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by optimus.centralmiss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4375528431; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:17:37 -0600 (CST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id A669F61C44; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:17:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:17:36 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Doug Hardie Message-ID: <20071207051736.GM71129@over-yonder.net> References: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16-fullermd.4 (2007-06-09) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: /boot size in 7.0 beta3 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: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:36:12 -0000 On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:32:41PM -0800 I heard the voice of Doug Hardie, and lo! it spake thus: > > Between 6.2 and 7 /boot has grown from 45 MB to 114 MB. That poses > a significant issue for those of us who have been running production > systems for many years. I have the root partition set to 200 MB > which has been more than enough. Well, 200 meg has been pretty tight and rather small for a couple versions now. My 194 meg / partition set up in 3-CURRENT days is pretty tight these days 8-} rm'ing away all the .symbols files from the kernel dir did the trick for me, though (I did have to do it in another terminal while `installkernel` was running to get it to complete... there's probably a flag I can pass to make): Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 194M 65M 113M 36% / -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.