On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Bill Tillman <btillma...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Doesn't that seem odd that the "default" partition size for root > (512M) isn't quite big enough? It's not that odd: nobody has bothered to update the default partition sizes in sysinstall for a good few years, I suspect because most people use a custom layout and haven't noticed that the defaults are bad. I'm going to checkin a fix in a couple of days. > Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) > to eliminate this problem? Yes, you should do. I don't usually use the default partitioning because for years I've been creating a 1GB /, 4GB /var and 1GB /tmp and the defaults sysinstall chooses are no good. > As I understand it this is > not actually the solution the "in the know" folks recommend. I was > advised to just delete kernel.old. I'd consider that bad advice: the defaults sysinstall chooses are currently just wrong, and you should indeed be setting / to at least 1GB so you don't run out of space. The 'solution' of deleting kernel.old or not installing symbols is just a workaround and is certainly less than ideal. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
