From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 22:50:41 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 B923B16A417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoot.lafn.org (zoot.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892D313C459 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (pool-71-109-155-74.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.155.74]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoot.lafn.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id lB7MobwV041192 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:50:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Message-Id: <9F286505-17C2-4A53-9A94-32B4164BBBF1@lafn.org> From: Doug Hardie To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" In-Reply-To: <47591F9E.6020902@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:50:36 -0800 References: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> <47591F9E.6020902@yandex.ru> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/5033/Fri Dec 7 13:19:49 2007 on zoot.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean 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 22:50:41 -0000 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.