From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 10:36:34 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 7B1A116A417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:36:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bu7cher@yandex.ru) Received: from smtp1.yandex.ru (smtp1.yandex.ru [213.180.200.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B817113C469 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:36:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bu7cher@yandex.ru) Received: from ns.kirov.so-cdu.ru ([77.72.136.145]:1984 "EHLO [127.0.0.1]" smtp-auth: "bu7cher" TLS-CIPHER: "DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA keybits 256/256 version TLSv1/SSLv3" TLS-PEER-CN1: ) by mail.yandex.ru with ESMTP id S3485701AbXLGKZj (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:25:39 +0300 X-Comment: RFC 2476 MSA function at smtp1.yandex.ru logged sender identity as: bu7cher Message-ID: <47591F9E.6020902@yandex.ru> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:25:34 +0300 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 (FreeBSD/20051231) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie References: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 10:36:34 -0000 Doug Hardie wrote: > 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. Its no longer usable. 7.0 beta will not > install properly as it runs out of space. Basically this forces you to > repartition the drive. That requires an extensive down time for > servers. Far beyond what I can justify to users. src/UPDATING: 20060118: This actually occured some time ago, but installing the kernel now also installs a bunch of symbol files for the kernel modules. This increases the size of /boot/kernel to about 67Mbytes. You will need twice this if you will eventually back this up to kernel.old on your next install. If you have a shortage of room in your root partition, you should add -DINSTALL_NODEBUG to your make arguments or add INSTALL_NODEBUG="yes" to your /etc/make.conf. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov