Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:56:06 -1000 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /boot size in 7.0 beta3 Message-ID: <20071207105606.GA1370@holstein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20071207051736.GM71129@over-yonder.net> References: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> <20071207051736.GM71129@over-yonder.net>
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in message <20071207051736.GM71129@over-yonder.net>, wrote Matthew D. Fuller thusly... > > 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-} On not too old RELENG_6 with a debug kernel (nothing much in /root, /tmp is a symlinked to elsewhere) ... df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s3a 193M 71M 107M 40% / /dev/ufs/t61var 387M 104M 253M 29% /var /dev/ufs/t61usr 678M 155M 468M 25% /usr /dev/ufs/t61home 24G 6.3G 16G 28% /home /dev/ufs/t61misc 13G 6.8G 5.4G 56% /misc devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev So, just what have you been stuffing in /? Now if /var is really in /, then 200M is indeed close to the usage (175M) for comfort. - Parv > 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% / --
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