/boot size in 7.0 beta3

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Fri Dec 7 02:36:34 PST 2007


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.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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