root partition too small

[Reed Loefgren]

Denise H. G. wrote:
> alexs at ulgsm.ru writes:
>
>   
>> Label from freebsd sysinstall in auto mode, make root partition 500mb
>> For update OS (kernel + kernel.old) need about 700mb
>>
>> Howto rebild kernel with litsted in kldstat modules? 
>>     
>
> Remove all the symbol files in /boot/kernel, I think. You don't need
> them. Actually 500 mb for the root partition is enough.
>
>   
FWIW,

I used a 300MB root partition; just big enough to accommodate the 
.symbols files in the initial (amd64) install, then I deleted them.

tester [102] [8:37pm] [/home/tester]$ df -h /
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    290M    155M    112M    58%    /