sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem

[Peter C. Lai]

Might be helpful to remember that /root is on /, so if you're in the 
habit of leaving stuff in /root for doing sysadmin tasks, it can kill
/ pretty quickly...

On 2008-12-04 10:08:59AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> 
> /boot/kernel is ~118 MB on my system (including debugging symbols).
> Default size of the root partition created by sysinstall is 512 MB, in your 
> case downsized to 360 to accomodate other partitions on your 8GB disk.
> Should still be enough though.  Do you have any other big files hanging
> around in your root partition?
> 
> Ruben
> 
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +0900, Nathan Butcher typed:
> > Automatic labelling on 7.0 created about 360MB for my root partition on
> > a 8GB disk. After a buildkernel into 7.1-PRERELEASE, the root partition
> > was exhausted during the installkernel.
> > 
> > Maybe automatic labelling in sysinstall needs to allocate more than
> > 360MB in the root (/) partition if it's going to stay big enough to
> > accomodate a buildkernel and installkernel from source.
> > 
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