Default FS Layout Too Small?

[L Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Philipp Ost <pj at smo.de> wrote:
> Sean Bruno wrote:
>>
>> I noted that if I choose the auto defaults for my F/S layout, sysinstall
>> will not reserve enough space for root(512MB?).  This is just barely
>> enough to recompile and install an updated kernel.  Much more than that
>> and the F/S is full.
>
> On my FreeBSD boxes the size of / is ~256MB of which are ~85MB in use. I'm
> perfectly happy with that ;-)
>
> I don't quite get your problem there...

I suspect you're an extraordinary case. Running 8.0-CURRENT on my
laptop with a (very) slimmed down GENERIC, *one* copy of my kernel
takes up significantly more space than yours

hark at kanaria> du -hd0 /boot/kernel
120M    /boot/kernel