/boot size in 7.0 beta3

[Parv]

in message <20071207051736.GM71129 at over-yonder.net>,
wrote Matthew D. Fuller thusly...
>
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:32:41PM -0800 I heard the voice of
> Doug Hardie, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Well, 200 meg has been pretty tight and rather small for a couple
> versions now.  My 194 meg / partition set up in 3-CURRENT days is
> pretty tight these days   8-}

On not too old RELENG_6 with a debug kernel (nothing much in /root,
/tmp is a symlinked to elsewhere)
...

  df -h
  Filesystem          Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
  /dev/ad4s3a         193M     71M    107M    40%    /
  /dev/ufs/t61var     387M    104M    253M    29%    /var
  /dev/ufs/t61usr     678M    155M    468M    25%    /usr
  /dev/ufs/t61home     24G    6.3G     16G    28%    /home
  /dev/ufs/t61misc     13G    6.8G    5.4G    56%    /misc
  devfs               1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev

So, just what have you been stuffing in /?  Now if /var is really in
/, then 200M is indeed close to the usage (175M) for comfort.


  - Parv


> rm'ing away all the .symbols files from the kernel dir did the
> trick for me, though (I did have to do it in another terminal
> while `installkernel` was running to get it to complete...
> there's probably a flag I can pass to make):
>
> Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a          194M     65M    113M    36%    /

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