8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:23:28AM +0000, Adrian Wontroba typed:
> > I concur that the 235 MB size of an amd64 8.0 kernel is a bit of a
> > surprise. An i386 kernel is a mere 135 MB.  IMO increasing the
> > sysinstall default root slice size for at least amd64 would be a
> > good thing.
>
> To be a little more precise: it's not the >kernel< that is so big.
> It's all the (mostly not needed) modules and symbol files that fill
> up /

Maybe they could be put somewhere else..

I don't think you need them unless remote debugging and in that case you 
are multiuser (I would have thought anyway).

If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim.

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