Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:17:36 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /boot size in 7.0 beta3 Message-ID: <20071207051736.GM71129@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org> References: <2D93E927-3445-457A-A731-A8971A2E3859@lafn.org>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:32:41PM -0800 I heard the voice of Doug Hardie, and lo! it spake thus: > > Between 6.2 and 7 /boot has grown from 45 MB to 114 MB. That poses > a significant issue for those of us who have been running production > systems for many years. I have the root partition set to 200 MB > which has been more than enough. Well, 200 meg has been pretty tight and rather small for a couple versions now. My 194 meg / partition set up in 3-CURRENT days is pretty tight these days 8-} rm'ing away all the .symbols files from the kernel dir did the trick for me, though (I did have to do it in another terminal while `installkernel` was running to get it to complete... there's probably a flag I can pass to make): Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 194M 65M 113M 36% / -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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