Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:42:57 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Ian J Hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>, "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? Message-ID: <20090706074256.GD6306@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20090706073941.GA78371@ei.bzerk.org> 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>
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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
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