From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 9 13:02:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A98A01E65 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 13:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A7E41A09 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 13:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-222-143.knology.net [216.186.222.143] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t89D20Te023901 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:02:01 -0500 Subject: Re: Storage question References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> <55EFC2DA.3020101@hiwaay.net> <08B351DD-AA48-4F30-B0D6-C500D0877FB3@lafn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55F02DC8.7000706@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:07:30 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <08B351DD-AA48-4F30-B0D6-C500D0877FB3@lafn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 13:02:03 -0000 On 09/09/15 02:09, Doug Hardie wrote: > The one item I didn’t see mentioned is the size of the next upgrade kernel. I “sized” my root partition for 6.1 years ago. 7 didn’t fit on it unless I removed the kernel debug symbols during the installation. 8 wouldn’t fit at all. I have periodically had to completely rebuild the system disk to resize the partitions for system upgrades. That is a real pain and a major downtime. 10 is out and 11 is almost here. Newer systems are always larger. *Agreed* on all counts, that's why I was trying to see what I could shrink out of my current 9.3R install, since both new boxen will be 9.3R as well. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.