From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 19:58:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953EC1065674 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC7A8FC12 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3087 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2010 19:58:12 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Jul 2010 19:58:12 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id C478E5084D; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:58:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100701185723.GD19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <44mxub6msq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20100701192818.GE19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:58:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100701192818.GE19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> (Chip Camden's message of "Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:28:18 -0700") Message-ID: <44eifn6kks.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:58:13 -0000 Chip Camden writes: > On Jul 01 15:10, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Chip Camden writes: >> >> > I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size >> > for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting >> > it, I just 'rm -r /boot/kernel.old' when it fails and then redo 'make >> > installkernel', and all seems OK. >> >> That's a little dangerous, because you're deleting your last known-good >> kernel. I'd feel better about recommending just removing the >> unnecessary kernel modules (which for a lot of people, is all of them). > > Could you expand on that? I'd prefer a less risky option, especially > because I always get this paralyzing fear that I'll accidentally hit > Enter after I've typed 'rm -r /' A healthy fear, indeed. For one thing, I'd certainly rather have someone do "rm /boot/kernel.old/*.ko" than "rm -r /boot/kernel.old". Being even more selective is an obvious extension...