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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:07:31 +0100
From:      krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>
To:        Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0
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On 1 July 2010 21:12, Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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On ufs installs I tend to have a single 8GB partition for /, I then hang
/tmp, /var, /home, and /usr/local off it along with any other fs i need.

When doing a zfs root install I obviously dont have to specify the size.
However I still tend to put on an 8GB reservation on it.



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