Hi, I installed FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 onto a virtual machine (VirtualBox on Debian Squeeze) yesterday with all the default disk partitioning done automatically by sysinstall. In particular, the / partition got 512 megs. Now right after that I did a full build of the world (nothing in src.conf and very few interesting things in make.conf) and kernel (GENERIC) as described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html . To my shock it seems that /boot is getting overflowed with the kernel/ and kernel.old/ directories.
I did a little sanity checking. On my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 server, where I've done the buildworld process millions of times, there exist /boot/kernel/ and /boot/kernel.old/ directories, and the total usage of / on this system is 39%. I wiped clean the temporary 8.1 amd64 virtual machine install and reinstalled, this time with a 1 gig / partition. Sure enough, right out of the box the / partition is 29% full (of 1024 megs). So on a 512 meg partition it would have been over 50% full, and after a "make installkernel" it would exceed 100%.
Is this a known problem? I'm surprised they didn't bump up the default / partition size when using sysinstall.
I did a little sanity checking. On my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 server, where I've done the buildworld process millions of times, there exist /boot/kernel/ and /boot/kernel.old/ directories, and the total usage of / on this system is 39%. I wiped clean the temporary 8.1 amd64 virtual machine install and reinstalled, this time with a 1 gig / partition. Sure enough, right out of the box the / partition is 29% full (of 1024 megs). So on a 512 meg partition it would have been over 50% full, and after a "make installkernel" it would exceed 100%.
Is this a known problem? I'm surprised they didn't bump up the default / partition size when using sysinstall.
