From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 22:29:21 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 C2672106566B for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:29:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823618FC0A for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.28]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 01 Jul 2010 18:29:20 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.8-GA) with ESMTP id LTM47632; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:29:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 209-6-91-204.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.91.204]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 01 Jul 2010 18:29:20 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19501.5823.54767.398329@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:29:19 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20100701211957.GA42755@alucard.int.rhavenn.net> References: <20100701185723.GD19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100701192930.GF19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <44aaqb6kez.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20100701211957.GA42755@alucard.int.rhavenn.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net) 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 22:29:21 -0000 Henrik Hudson writes: > > Or just make one large partition. Not on a server, but I don't > > see much reason for using multiple partitions on a laptop. > > Multiple partitions still isn't a bad idea if you ever have to > fsck and even on a desktop / laptop I usually mount /tmp as > noexec. (note: installworld requires exec in /tmp, so you will > have to remount /tmp if you use that). Also, it's easier to > recover if you can boot single user mode and run a quick fsck on > / when it's small. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's > easier. 1) The preferred backup method uses dump. 2) dump works on entire partitions. 2a) It makes little sense to back up 500 gbytes when all you need to preserve is 5 gbytes. 3) If you regularly need to dump more than a single partition, quite a few people have scripts they will probably be willing to share. Robert Huff