Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:39:50 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: L Campbell <llc2w@virginia.edu> Cc: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0902241533500.14414@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <792298050902241222y2927bbffj210715f259fd28bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <49A454AB.8040903@smo.de> <792298050902241222y2927bbffj210715f259fd28bf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, L Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> wrote: >> Sean Bruno wrote: >>> >>> I noted that if I choose the auto defaults for my F/S layout, sysinstall >>> will not reserve enough space for root(512MB?). This is just barely >>> enough to recompile and install an updated kernel. Much more than that >>> and the F/S is full. >> >> On my FreeBSD boxes the size of / is ~256MB of which are ~85MB in use. I'm >> perfectly happy with that ;-) >> >> I don't quite get your problem there... > > I suspect you're an extraordinary case. Running 8.0-CURRENT on my > laptop with a (very) slimmed down GENERIC, *one* copy of my kernel > takes up significantly more space than yours > > hark@kanaria> du -hd0 /boot/kernel > 120M /boot/kernel Depends upon whether you make separate copies of all the modules or just the kernel binary file (I'm in the habit of doing the latter, but I can see the argument for the former being the default). rick
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