From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 20:34:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3953106566B for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:34:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FAE8FC15 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:34:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [128.206.184.213] (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by math.missouri.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E3D4610CEF; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:17:29 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <49A45558.9060000@math.missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:15:20 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090220 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Bruno References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9041/Tue Feb 24 10:21:07 2009 on math.missouri.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:37:44 +0000 Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:34:24 -0000 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. > > I would assume that the default would be much larger now-a-days. I think > a simple doubling to 1G would be sufficient. > > Comments? > > Sean I have observed the same issue. Somehow there is a lot more stuff in /boot/kernel than there used to be. I'm guessing that a lot of it is symbols for the debugger, which used not to be there. And when you have /boot/kernel.old as well, it really gets pretty full there. I don't understand the comment made by another poster that 85MB is enough. I have a FreeBSD 7 box which was partitioned years ago (back in FreeBSD 2 days) which has only 256MB on the root FS. My process for installing the kernel is now cd /usr/src make installkernel .... this dies with a "file system full" error rm -r /boot/kernel.old make installkernel