On Dec 7, 2007, at 02:25, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
Doug Hardie wrote:
Between 6.2 and 7 /boot has grown from 45 MB to 114 MB. That poses
a significant issue for those of us who have been running
production systems for many years. I have the root partition set
to 200 MB which has been more than enough. Its no longer usable.
7.0 beta will not install properly as it runs out of space.
Basically this forces you to repartition the drive. That requires
an extensive down time for servers. Far beyond what I can justify
to users.
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. That must have been after 6.2 came out as I never had that
occur with it. Anyway, since I am installing from CD I discovered
that during the install, VT4 has a working shell that lets you cd to /
boot/GENERIC and delete the symbol files before the disk overflows. I
will have to add the line above to make.conf though as I do minor
updates from the source.
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