Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere? IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!), eg.. [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel 258M kernel [cain 14:07] /tmp >rm -f kernel/*.symbols [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel 50M kernel
One downside is that you need to keep them in sync which is a bit of a drag, however I think most people use installworld for upgrades/builds so it would generally not be an issue. I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with the symbol files it is not possible. I don't have patches to do this though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
