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Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I had the exact same problem..

my answer..

Copy root stuff into /big (my last partition).
Change the fstab there to be correct.
boot into that instead of 'a'.
Use disklabel -e -r to chop 20MB off the swap partition and add it to the 
front of the a partition. (swap was conveniently just above 'a'..)
use growfs to grow the 'a' partition.
fsck it.

reboot back onto 'a'.

voila, 20MB extra in /.

(I had more than enough in the swap part.. 20MB hardly changed it.)


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