Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:53:33 +0200 From: "Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <4C2D9AFD.8080707@stillbilde.net> In-Reply-To: <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <AANLkTil7rb8_YNbGPfwsNt1_Zn4hdOr9hTpGwVwTEbrF@mail.gmail.com> <20100701212112.GA28138@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <AANLkTinLgvd9GLP8RXeiWcowBoFxSeZSJLMHjCFq8jGR@mail.gmail.com> <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 02.07.2010 09:33, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote:
>> Henrik,
>> When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition.
>> When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I=
>> thought "O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT wants to
>> and see if I have the same problem, and I did.
>=20
>> Apparently, 512M is just, not, quite big enough so I think I'll try 1G=
>> to give me plenty of room.
>=20
> Is it time for me to start advocating "one big partition" again?
>=20
> This may not be the consensus view, but I have found that for a quiet
> life and general lack of botheration it helps to create *only two*
> partitions on your hard drive:
>=20
> b: Swap -- usually 2x RAM
> a: Everything else
>=20
I usually (today) set up something similar. I sysinstall FreeBSD onto a
CF card with the "one-big-root" method, then create a zpool (on
spinning-metal-storage) where I create the usr, tmp, var fs'es, tar|tar
the originals over and fix the mountpoint info on the zfs'es. Then I add
swap on a zvol (since I don't know how to properly use a kernel dump, I
don't need swap to store it).
I use this method everywhere except on VMs inside VMWare ESXi. It's been
my painful experience that zfs inside vmware machines is a bad idea.
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