From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 6 07:43:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0AA1065676 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:43:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20318FC1D for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:42:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by kagate1.punkt.de with ESMTP id n667gwTr073655 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:42:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n667gvHN007253; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:42:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n667gvj4007252; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:42:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:42:57 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" To: Ruben de Groot , Ian J Hart , "Patrick M. Hausen" , Dimitry Andric , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Message-ID: <20090706074256.GD6306@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20090703142528.GA11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A4E174A.1050207@andric.com> <20090703144121.GC11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A4E1E24.3020303@andric.com> <20090703152150.GE11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20090705003834.12211k8697td2o74@webmail.private.lan> <20090706073941.GA78371@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090706073941.GA78371@ei.bzerk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:43:01 -0000 Hello, On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:39:41AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:38:34AM +0100, Ian J Hart typed: > > > > I just had an installworld fail due to this (/rescue). > > > > Given that many people will have chosen the default root size offered > > by sysinstall a different build default would seem prudent. > > > > In any case sysinstall needs to be updated (1GB?). Let's not put off > > new users anymore than we have to. > > The default root partition created by sysinstall (provided the disk is large > enough) is 512 MB, which is more than enough. > > #define ROOT_DEFAULT_SIZE 512 IMHO it is not. If you install a kernel with *.symbols present twice (i.e. kernel and kernel.old contain symbol files), your root partition will be > 95% full. That's why I started this discussion in the first place and decided not to install the symbols on production machines for now. Kind regards, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 info@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285