/boot size in 7.0 beta3
Doug Hardie
bc979 at lafn.org
Thu Dec 6 17:49:01 PST 2007
Between 6.2 and 7 /boot has grown from 45 MB to 114 MB. That poses a
significant issue for those of us who have been running production
systems for many years. I have the root partition set to 200 MB which
has been more than enough. Its no longer usable. 7.0 beta will not
install properly as it runs out of space. Basically this forces you
to repartition the drive. That requires an extensive down time for
servers. Far beyond what I can justify to users.
Also, 7.0 beta3 has login compiled with libutil.so.5 and libc.so.6
neither of which are on the distribution cd. I had to point those to
the existing libs to get login to work.
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