From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 21:35:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE626FF0 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alonsoschaich@fastmail.fm) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7011B8FC08 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164A320EDE for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:27:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:27:49 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=xItEmJsh6WdLVfyEnayPoqKN7Ag=; b=D3ck54GEsKgg3TjmVnseqWTDD1ui aFR6bkw5NRc1zqd2Hhhmw5oNanKh91V8jMYVQWSv2EdLHwTi2RK0NiZJKKZCV9v7 eurIGccXX/PYWwAU7oQ3zUAWtGkoLTw9Xd4WA0jtAbKGv5JF6vXsVqFkr9sPz1rr FX/sPsl0EsONilY= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; s=smtpout; bh=xItEmJsh6WdLVfyEnayPoqKN7Ag=; b=cMM AHfcUArSgg8uBFRtrjjH6/knOD/LUSwFiLtYgwuIHolPWzEuzzYdmiwP1ixK6+gq F0YwTFQRh6iePTM4Ob37OWkcx0vkeheBPQ3wI9R/nlxwBSljrvvhtcSoSvDd6G3o PUFESnsoQlgIQos9oja207pfgzq8S4rLyYBQjWNU= X-Sasl-enc: lIxZZhZ0pwC87tylY0oQxQCkABRNx/zVuPdc3hbULdVP 1353965268 Received: from harmony.localnet.edu (unknown [141.87.213.55]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CA6208E0536 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:27:48 -0500 (EST) From: Schaich Alonso To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help review the FAQ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:27:16 +0100 Message-ID: <2640983.EkVXuex1QE@harmony.localnet.edu> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.3 (FreeBSD/9.1-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.9.3; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <50B3DBEF.1060303@quip.cz> References: <50B3D222.30209@ose.nl> <50B3DBEF.1060303@quip.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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, 26 Nov 2012 21:35:44 -0000 On 2012-11-26 (Monday) 22:15:27 Miroslav Lachman wrote: > [...] > > So a kernel alone has 12MB, with debug symbols 62MB (12+50). > And all *.symbols files can be deleted (if more space on /boot is needed) > I don't know how it should be mentioned in FAQ. > > Miroslav Lachman Specifying WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=YES in src.conf to not generate debug information IMO is a cleaner and more preferable solution then deleting the files, and it also reduces the amount of storage space needed for /usr/obj (or whereever else the kernel's built) by about 1GB on STABLE-9. Schaich Alonso