From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 11:10:41 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 2F55416A419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:10:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53FE13C4E3 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:10:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com ([66.91.123.31]) by hrndva-omta05.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20071207105530.IDDP25689.hrndva-omta05.mail.rr.com@localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com>; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:55:30 +0000 Received: from holstein.holy.cow (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D89832C5; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:56:08 -1000 (HST) Received: (from parv@localhost) by holstein.holy.cow (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id lB7Au6IC005821; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:56:06 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) X-Authentication-Warning: holstein.holy.cow: parv set sender to parv@pair.com using -f Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:56:06 -1000 From: Parv To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Message-ID: <20071207105606.GA1370@holstein.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Doug Hardie , FreeBSD Stable References: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> <20071207051736.GM71129@over-yonder.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071207051736.GM71129@over-yonder.net> 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 11:10:41 -0000 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% / --