Re: Default FS Layout Too Small?

From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem_at_uoguelph.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:39:50 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, L Campbell wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Philipp Ost <pj_at_smo.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> On my FreeBSD boxes the size of / is ~256MB of which are ~85MB in use. I'm
>> perfectly happy with that ;-)
>>
>> I don't quite get your problem there...
>
> I suspect you're an extraordinary case. Running 8.0-CURRENT on my
> laptop with a (very) slimmed down GENERIC, *one* copy of my kernel
> takes up significantly more space than yours
>
> hark_at_kanaria> du -hd0 /boot/kernel
> 120M    /boot/kernel

Depends upon whether you make separate copies of all the modules or just
the kernel binary file (I'm in the habit of doing the latter, but I can 
see the argument for the former being the default).

rick
Received on Tue Feb 24 2009 - 19:35:27 UTC

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