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Date:      Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:04:07 +0900
From:      Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem
Message-ID:  <49389A27.8040704@fusiongol.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081204191640.GH58682@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <49362A3C.7060204@fusiongol.com> <20081204191640.GH58682@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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> Are you running i386 or amd64?  360MB _is_ a very tight fit for amd64
> but you should make it unless you have some large, unexpected files
> lying around in your root partition.  As a workaround, you could
> remove *.symbols from the old kernel files.

Running amd64. The install was fresh so there were no extra files in /

> Looking at sysinstall, the default size is currently 512MB unless you
> have less than ~20GB, when it will start scaling down.

maybe it needs to scale down just a little bit less than it already
does.... although granted, not every install is going to experience a
kernal recompile from source - well, ones that expect to be maintained
anyway.

> Your options are:
> 1) Expand root (maybe use growfs and eat into your swap)
> 2) Avoid building unwanted modules via MODULES_OVERRIDE.

Fair enough. This issue just bit me in the behind because I was
expecting the 7.1 kernal and modules to take up about as much space as
7.0 ... but then I remember that dtrace found it's way into 7.1 plus a
whole lotta code....




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