Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:06:51 +0200 From: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? Message-ID: <E1LcKPT-0005QN-7X@clue.co.za> In-Reply-To: <49A45558.9060000@math.missouri.edu> References: <49A45558.9060000@math.missouri.edu> <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith 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. > > > > I would assume that the default would be much larger now-a-days. I think > > a simple doubling to 1G would be sufficient. > > > > Comments? > > > > Sean > > I have observed the same issue. Somehow there is a lot more stuff in > /boot/kernel than there used to be. I'm guessing that a lot of it is > symbols for the debugger, which used not to be there. And when you have > /boot/kernel.old as well, it really gets pretty full there. > > I don't understand the comment made by another poster that 85MB is > enough. I have a FreeBSD 7 box which was partitioned years ago (back in [brane] /boot $ uname -a FreeBSD brane.freislich.nom.za 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Feb 24 12:45:03 SAST 2009 ianf@brane.freislich.nom.za:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BRANE amd64 [brane] /boot $ du 22 ./defaults 36114 ./kernel 2 ./modules 2 ./firmware 2 ./zfs 32658 ./kernel.old 69722 . I suspect that this config option has a lot to do with how much space your kernels (and modules) use on disk makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols Ian -- Ian Freislich
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