From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 07:53:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A17106564A for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from svein-listmail@stillbilde.net) Received: from mail.stillbilde.net (unknown [IPv6:2002:51af:3dc3:0:20c:29ff:fece:79f3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253268FC1A for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2002:51af:3dc3:0:d8a0:b096:91a1:64a7] (unknown [IPv6:2002:51af:3dc3:0:d8a0:b096:91a1:64a7]) (Authenticated sender: svein-listmail) by mail.stillbilde.net (Familien Skogens mail) with ESMTPSA id 74EF122 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:53:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C2D9AFD.8080707@stillbilde.net> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:53:33 +0200 From: "Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100701212112.GA28138@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0C5D6B742E3284A17C021CFF" Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:53:41 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0C5D6B742E3284A17C021CFF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02.07.2010 09:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: >> Henrik, >> When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. >> When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I= >> thought "O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT wants to >> and see if I have the same problem, and I did. >=20 >> Apparently, 512M is just, not, quite big enough so I think I'll try 1G= >> to give me plenty of room. >=20 > Is it time for me to start advocating "one big partition" again? >=20 > This may not be the consensus view, but I have found that for a quiet > life and general lack of botheration it helps to create *only two* > partitions on your hard drive: >=20 > b: Swap -- usually 2x RAM > a: Everything else >=20 I usually (today) set up something similar. I sysinstall FreeBSD onto a CF card with the "one-big-root" method, then create a zpool (on spinning-metal-storage) where I create the usr, tmp, var fs'es, tar|tar the originals over and fix the mountpoint info on the zfs'es. Then I add swap on a zvol (since I don't know how to properly use a kernel dump, I don't need swap to store it). I use this method everywhere except on VMs inside VMWare ESXi. It's been my painful experience that zfs inside vmware machines is a bad idea. //Svein --=20 --------+-------------------+------------------------------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | svein@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg =C3=98stli 9 | PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X |2020 Skedsmokorset | svein@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | svein@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listmail@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +-------------------+------------------------------- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |svein@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle: SS16503-RIPE --------+-------------------+------------------------------- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at svein-mobile@stillbilde.net This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. ------------------------------------------------------------ Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------enig0C5D6B742E3284A17C021CFF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkwtmwEACgkQODUnwSLUlKQqUACgsazm599Jkml/fqOFh6YtA6sd tnQAnR+eKClYTOOCzOpE58Nl/eZFEmvZ =PpRe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0C5D6B742E3284A17C021CFF--