From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jul 2 5:45:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from luggage.securecirt.com (mcns19.docsis10.singa.pore.net [202.156.10.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39FA37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 05:45:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonathan@z-vance.com) Received: from luggage (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luggage.securecirt.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with SMTP id f616aOF22519; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:36:26 +0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael Boman Reply-To: michael.boman@securecirt.com Organization: SecuireCiRT To: Luigi Rizzo , Michael Boman Subject: Re: Problem with MD devices in PicoBSD Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:36:24 +0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200106301545.RAA25290@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <200106301545.RAA25290@info.iet.unipi.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01070114362400.28977@luggage> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 30 June 2001 23:45, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > Hi! > > > > I have some problem getting up a second MD device on PicoBSD (the version > > from today's -STABLE). I need more space then the 2200kb the initial disk > > is. If I try to increase the initial disk (the one mounted as "/") i get > > "Out of space" error while building, so I thought about increasing > > diskspace on-the-fly when it's needed... > > not sure what you want to do. If you need space at runtime, > then just make a larger MFS image, which is compressed, so > the extra (empty) space takes almost nothing. I need approx. 30 Mb storage area (rw) for additional software I need to use. Now, I can't possible fit 30 Mb on a 1.44 Mb floppy, so I get the extra software from CDROM and over network (scp or rsync). But first of all I need the extra 30 Mb disk-space to store the files in. > If you get "Out of space" errors, it means that even the compressed > image is too large and then you have to drop something. > > Anyways, if you are on stable, i think you need /dev/vn* and not > /dev/md* Ok, I've added the vn* devices, both in the kernel and in the ~net/config file and they get created. How can I make a 30 Mb ramdisk on the fly from here? I am sorry to bother you but I cant find any concrete information on the websites. The only thing I find is to use vnconfig, but can't find any info how to create a disk from thin air. > cheers > luigi > > > Anyway, whatever I try to do with /dev/md1 I get "Device Not Configured" > > error. Could someone let me know how to create a second MD device, or > > point me to the correct direction? > > > > Kernel config, crunch.cong and config files are availble if needed. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Michael Boman > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message -- Michael Boman #04-01, 750c Chai Chee Road Security Architect Technopark@ChaiChee, Singapore 469003 SecureCiRT Tel: 2436800 Fax: 4415119 Mobile: 96942601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message