From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 18:42:06 2008 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 A73771065674 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB9A8FC19 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so4472085rvf.43 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:42:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=gOKyLYrvekUNeLGP6rW2L34hs5iu0hcbachr0GCj350=; b=SSoS0/9fajOPM2u+i+27bbn8lX5pNMVgAtBDheZwp6+7LBiN/kxLD+HZE4QLNW8j6x /bc8ROcb0YllPw0jljcSiaJw9Hio5ioozssVGTQ6Dtx+b7lGWr5J2SOJklxEACqh7upt pEnJIMBcyxOgxr6WknrWE07a/dvugSqLtbIVE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=EIWGCI3IhIlXVFUfp6zfUElBt/Yj8PZEZC1kwDvyAxOdjfHAZigGeqcc0gK5YC4pAH aQQIWu1SHFZeEdQmw4im9hVjettvXkwBmh9Fhb4/8pP1P7g6unChqC1f+uAS7LYE4Nxm QVxbfzgENoCsOB7CoZtscevzEhqqR+UWAXXio= Received: by 10.140.144.1 with SMTP id r1mr1264456rvd.10.1213294371118; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.189.12 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:12:50 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: fbsd2@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ? 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: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:42:06 -0000 2008/6/12 fbsd2 : > Greetings list, > > Given recent EOL announcements, I'm trying to upgrade an ancient machine from 5.5 to 7. It has 80 Mb total in the root partition, /home/, /var/, /usr/, and /tmp/ on other partitions, and NFS mounts /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports from a slightly newer/faster box. I've seen > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html and > http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=121278826119286&w=2 > > which seem to suggest that even with INSTALL_NODEBUG during buildkernel, 7 might not fit in an 80 Mb /. Must I partition a new disk to give more space to /, or can I find more space by deleting /stand/, /modules/, and possibly /rescue/ to shoehorn a custom 7.x kernel in the available space? TIA > If you know you do not need the modules, by all means, to do away with them is space back to you. If you are building from source, you can use the: MODULES_OVERRIDE= variable in /etc/make.conf When you are at the # make installworld stage you can likely delete /stand (I believe it is not used on >=6.x) (Though I am not sitting at the machine now) I believe that / on my 7.x box is about 46M. -- --