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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>
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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
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