Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

[Anand Sivaram <aspnair@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 18:25, Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
 I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 kernel.
 Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image
linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source directory took 6GB space,
made the volume full.
 Tried a few times, the problem is still there, and always the same.
 What should I do? Thanks.
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Where did you take your ".config" from?  Normally if you did not take anything, it tries to take the running kernels configuration.  The default configuration of debian contains nearly all supported hardware.  You only require a very few portion of that tailored for your hardware.  So use menuconfig/xconfig etc and fine tune the configuration before building.