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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:06:20 -0400
From:      "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd@hub.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Very large kernel
Message-ID:  <47d0403c0808170906h22f11a03h524a5a50367d46a7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080815235546.65415dg5hblf1oxu@webmail.hub.org>
References:  <20080301073329.GA1081@Alex1.kruijff.org> <47C93FD2.1010902@FreeBSD.org> <20080815235546.65415dg5hblf1oxu@webmail.hub.org>

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:55 PM,  <freebsd@hub.org> wrote:
> Quoting "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.org>:
>
>> Alex de Kruijff wrote:
>>>
>>> I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is
>>> this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to
>>> save some space?
>>
>> Yes but if you encounter a panic and need to submit a bug report then you
>> will need at least the kernel.debug and whatever modules you are using.
>
> Two questions for this ...
>
>  a. can I move these to a larger partition temporarily, and if I have a
> crash, move them back to do debugging?

Yes.

>
>  b. is there some setting I can use in make.conf to have it auto-install the
> symbols files to a seperate directory on 'installkernel'?
>

I don't know of one, but that sounds like it could be useful.


-Ben Kaduk



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