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Date:      Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:42:09 +0100
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /
Message-ID:  <20100123114209.GA21457@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100123012328.GA3296@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk>
References:  <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <20100123012328.GA3296@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk>

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:23:28AM +0000, Adrian Wontroba typed:
> I concur that the 235 MB size of an amd64 8.0 kernel is a bit of a
> surprise. An i386 kernel is a mere 135 MB.  IMO increasing the sysinstall
> default root slice size for at least amd64 would be a good thing.

To be a little more precise: it's not the >kernel< that is so big. It's all the 
(mostly not needed) modules and symbol files that fill up /



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