From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 21:07:42 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 4755D1065670 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:07:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B4F8FC18 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so1878800fxm.13 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:07:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=/qP79yLhhSaGm78cszw260U9MrgVam1twfRX5MTHLmI=; b=FlPN2+SmMTpdKyojtqlhl5ueCv6JV68Pf9WPz6+u/Wr7+dZTscJR9wgHDonqTJHNac mfy/Y9kP495AeCVUerO7LpTAqScqe60fTFeg3NsTeh2Rm1xcZuXNOTtj8kmbNbx6FP6q Bpq0fMmpmoNvrJ1YYi3r+2Te+4WwR501PlhXE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=egJqWVN4QcA6RF11/VKKt/x3WQjk3lQQVIkN2nHaz5tvUZvj/RSQ1tW2V5kz52TsD3 6XCTqLI0q6NEJ3gFRrz+TBpbK/EO7/zDbPw10zJcpEhyyFQMHL4NxXLRtWXEcCsMcH9W MeCVlJtRDo6hDk5prXEx5xzPsWeuiThZ7woPA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.132.145 with SMTP id 17mr1693hbr.177.1278018451482; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.161.199 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:07:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100701185723.GD19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100701192930.GF19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <44aaqb6kez.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:07:31 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Ed Flecko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:07:42 -0000 On 1 July 2010 21:12, Ed Flecko 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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.