From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 20:12:35 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 0F40D1065673 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:12:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edflecko@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90A28FC12 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:12:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so136836iwn.13 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=FhONgxLwj6PJtiw8NkwdrsWa13ivfDFF+kG8RpT/NUo=; b=fFpvh7yIx1nfea4ddIAs4f6XgrXz0VNvK4MM7ZglgDP9EBuVSaBjPg7Qdm4R5NOep+ PsUxn+/rAvuq6bj/M3fnx5x5E6d+Pjl0HdDiJHHfm/uigrJmxpT2Cq39yalzn+kpLcar +ZmBtmbLKAyJ8mtnMXqerRJuZnfMPeiB7GUAk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=vlq+R/MGWex5nGgdWj7/HWvR9ahB249kuuUK7fccCEEwLC5VQMbEtns8T6syNndi6J Bo1ma4pjHAzcMmDsSVIeVl1hnK93FjvPgOsNBsoDV6UoM9O+UbDyFhSdxrT6nlXD4E0Z DVESVeCOMxVFA/gGu+z4G0yGtClrCbrf0UE4w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.32.129 with SMTP id c1mr10380038ibd.112.1278015154095; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.210.201 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44aaqb6kez.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20100701185723.GD19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100701192930.GF19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <44aaqb6kez.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:12:34 -0700 Message-ID: From: Ed Flecko To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:12:35 -0000 Since it would be smart to have at least one known, good kernel, why not make the / partition maybe 1G? I know the smaller the / partition, the better the performance (since it's the first partition of the drive), but I can't imagine a slightly larger / partition would impact performance that much, do you think? Ed