sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-Dec-03 15:42:04 +0900, Nathan Butcher <n-butcher at fusiongol.com> wrote:
>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.

Are you running i386 or amd64?  360MB _is_ a very tight fit for amd64
but you should make it unless you have some large, unexpected files
lying around in your root partition.  As a workaround, you could
remove *.symbols from the old kernel files.

>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.

Looking at sysinstall, the default size is currently 512MB unless you
have less than ~20GB, when it will start scaling down.

Your options are:
1) Expand root (maybe use growfs and eat into your swap)
2) Avoid building unwanted modules via MODULES_OVERRIDE.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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