Hello, On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > You can find this in /usr/src/UPDATING: > > 20060118: > This actually occured some time ago, but installing the kernel > now also installs a bunch of symbol files for the kernel modules. > This increases the size of /boot/kernel to about 67Mbytes. You > will need twice this if you will eventually back this up to kernel.old > on your next install. > If you have a shortage of room in your root partition, you should add > -DINSTALL_NODEBUG to your make arguments or add INSTALL_NODEBUG="yes" > to your /etc/make.conf.
Thanks a lot. I've been searching the handbook and Google for at least one hour. > However, you should consider increasing the size of your root > partition, if possible. It can be extremely handy to have symbol files > available whenever there's a crash. :) But I thought, they were in the kernel itself? %file /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/kernel: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped "not stripped" - i.e. "with debug symbols". Wrong? Since when? Thanks, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 i...@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
