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Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small?
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Sean Bruno wrote:
> I noted that if I choose the auto defaults for my F/S layout, sysinstall
> will not reserve enough space for root(512MB?).  This is just barely
> enough to recompile and install an updated kernel.  Much more than that
> and the F/S is full.

On my FreeBSD boxes the size of / is ~256MB of which are ~85MB in use. 
I'm perfectly happy with that ;-)

I don't quite get your problem there...


Regards,
Philipp