Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:50:36 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /boot size in 7.0 beta3 Message-ID: <9F286505-17C2-4A53-9A94-32B4164BBBF1@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <47591F9E.6020902@yandex.ru> References: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> <47591F9E.6020902@yandex.ru>
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On Dec 7, 2007, at 02:25, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > 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. Thanks. That must have been after 6.2 came out as I never had that occur with it. Anyway, since I am installing from CD I discovered that during the install, VT4 has a working shell that lets you cd to / boot/GENERIC and delete the symbol files before the disk overflows. I will have to add the line above to make.conf though as I do minor updates from the source.
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