Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:28:29 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: I suspect whoever you were talking to probably has more of a clue than I do. As a quick data point, I just ran portsnap fetch update while another process did a df /var; sleep 1 loop and /var increased by about 30MB

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: Henrik, When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I thought O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 02.07.2010 09:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: Henrik, When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I thought O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread krad
On 2 July 2010 08:33, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: Henrik, When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. When I installed the kernel and starting running

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Robert Huff
krad writes: all i can say is your a brave boy 8) A 1 TB+ / slice would take ages to fsck. For ages being less than ten (fifteen ?) minutes on a modern system with reasonable memory ... ... which should be necessary very rarely. Even on my test system, time between

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:33:45 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Is it time for me to start advocating one big partition again? This may not be the consensus view, but I have found that for a quiet life and general lack of botheration it helps to create *only two*

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: Henrik, When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I thought O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT wants to and see if I have

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Chance
On 07/02/10 13:13, Bruce Cran wrote: I have a task on my TODO list to increase the sizes of the partitions in sysinstall: for example / goes to 1GB, /var to 4GB. I hope to commit the code in the next couple of weeks. As a matter of idle curiosity with a bit of education thrown in, why 4GB for

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Robert Huff
Arthur Chance writes: As a matter of idle curiosity with a bit of education thrown in, why 4GB for /var? The last time I installed a new machine I made / 1GB as I'd found out from a previous install that 512MB wasn't really enough, and then decided to make /var bigger than the Handbook

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:04:10 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: As a matter of idle curiosity with a bit of education thrown in, why 4GB for /var? The last time I installed a new machine I made / 1GB as I'd found out from a previous install that 512MB wasn't really enough, and

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Chance
On 07/02/10 15:38, Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:04:10 +0100 Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: As a matter of idle curiosity with a bit of education thrown in, why 4GB for /var? The last time I installed a new machine I made / 1GB as I'd found out from a previous install that

/boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'm running FreeBSD 8.0, and I'm trying to simple stay current with all security patches. It's a clean install of FreeBSD 8.0 on a 50G drive, and I let sysinstall select the default partition configuration when I did the install. I've taken the following steps: # csup -4

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
On Jul 01 11:24, Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm running FreeBSD 8.0, and I'm trying to simple stay current with all security patches. It's a clean install of FreeBSD 8.0 on a 50G drive, and I let sysinstall select the default partition configuration when I did the install. I've taken the

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Ed Flecko
Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this problem? Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting it, I just 'rm -r /boot/kernel.old' when it fails and then redo 'make installkernel', and all seems OK.

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Ed Flecko
Chip, That sounds like a smart thing to do; can you tell me more about how to do that (or point me to a www resource; I'm happy to read more about that). :-) Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread James Bailie
running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0 Hi folks, I'm running FreeBSD 8.0, and I'm trying to simple stay current with all security patches. It's a clean install of FreeBSD 8.0 on a 50G drive, and I let sysinstall select the default partition configuration when I did the install. I've taken

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
On Jul 01 15:10, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting it, I just 'rm -r /boot/kernel.old' when it fails and then

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
On Jul 01 12:07, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this problem? Ed

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: On Jul 01 15:10, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting it, I just

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: On Jul 01 12:07, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Anders Andersson
A healthy fear, indeed. For one thing, I'd certainly rather have someone do rm /boot/kernel.old/*.ko than rm -r /boot/kernel.old. Being even more selective is an obvious extension... Why not move the old useless kernel to another drive. Sure if the system kernel fails and you need the old

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Ed Flecko
Since it would be smart to have at least one known, good kernel, why not make the / partition maybe 1G? I know the smaller the / partition, the better the performance (since it's the first partition of the drive), but I can't imagine a slightly larger / partition would impact performance that

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread krad
On 1 July 2010 21:12, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Since it would be smart to have at least one known, good kernel, why not make the / partition maybe 1G? I know the smaller the / partition, the better the performance (since it's the first partition of the drive), but I can't imagine

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: On Jul 01 12:07, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:24:46AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm running FreeBSD 8.0, and I'm trying to simple stay current with all security patches. It's a clean install of FreeBSD 8.0 on a 50G drive, and I let sysinstall select the default partition configuration when I did the

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 12:07:50PM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this problem? Many people find

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Ed Flecko
Henrik, When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I thought O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT wants to and see if I have the same problem, and I did. Apparently, 512M is just, not,

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Huff
Henrik Hudson writes: Or just make one large partition. Not on a server, but I don't see much reason for using multiple partitions on a laptop. Multiple partitions still isn't a bad idea if you ever have to fsck and even on a desktop / laptop I usually mount /tmp as noexec.

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
On Jul 01 12:29, Chip Camden wrote: On Jul 01 12:07, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this