Quoth Daniel O'Connor on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere? > > IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or > crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!), > eg.. > [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel > 258M kernel > [cain 14:07] /tmp >rm -f kernel/*.symbols > [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel > 50M kernel > > One downside is that you need to keep them in sync which is a bit of a drag, > however I think most people use installworld for upgrades/builds so it would > generally not be an issue. > > I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel is > relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with the symbol > files it is not possible. > > I don't have patches to do this though :) > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C >
+1 to this idea. I'm currently building without symbols so I don't have to clean them out of kernel.old every time I do an installkernel. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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