/boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0

[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 following steps:
> 
> 
> # csup -4 /etc/stable-supfile
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildworld
> # make buildkernel
> # make installkernel
> 
> After the make installkernel command, the / partition shows 106%
> capacity (and it started as 500M).
> 
> Here's my before and after running "make installkernel"
> 
> Before:
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a    496M    253M    203M    55%    /
> devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/da0s1e    496M     12K    456M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/da0s1f     44G    3.0G     37G     8%    /usr
> /dev/da0s1d    1.9G     10M    1.8G     1%    /var
> 
> After:
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a    496M    485M    -29M   106%    /
> devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/da0s1e    496M     12K    456M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/da0s1f     44G    3.0G     37G     8%    /usr
> /dev/da0s1d    1.9G     10M    1.8G     1%    /var
> 
> # cd /
> # du -h -d2 | grep M
> 
> 2.0K	./tmp/.XIM-unix
>  33M	./usr/bin
>  18M	./usr/include
>  37M	./usr/lib
>  20M	./usr/libexec
> 267M ./usr/local
>  20M	./usr/sbin
>  37M	./usr/share
> 511M ./usr/src
> 450M ./usr/ports
>  10M	./var/db
>  10M	./var
> 1.7M	./etc
> 1.1M	./bin
> 233M ./boot/kernel
> 233M ./boot/kernel.old
> 466M ./boot
> 7.4M	./lib
> 4.3M	./rescue
> 4.4M	./sbin
> 
> It looks like the both kernels are eating up the entire /
> 
> Right?
> 
> What am I doing wrong? The isn't normal, is it?
> 
> Thank you,
> Ed
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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.

-- 
Sterling (Chip) Camden
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