Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:42:56 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on EC2 Message-ID: <CALfReyct6-XEkBJdon5gmtcAq3eaxk2oWgmB%2B-M4db0NhNePrw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111031130827.GA8861@panix.com> References: <20111031130827.GA8861@panix.com>
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On 31 October 2011 13:08, Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> wrote: > > I've been experimenting with FreeBSD on EC2, in the hopes that I can > move some systems there. I'm pleased with the possibilities, but have a > two initial questions: > > First, the t1.micro instance, which I'm starting with, is supposed to > have 10 GB of EBS storage--1GB for the kernel on the boot partition, and > 9GB for the rest. But my instance only has 4.8GB on root: > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da1s1 4.8G 4.1G 332M 93% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/da0 1.0G 21M 944M 2% /boot/grub > > Where's the rest? I asked about this in the EC2 forums, and someone said > that it's probably unformatted space on a different partition; if so, I > could use some advice about adding this to the existing root partition, > and I'm also curious why this would be set up like this. 4.8GB isn't > enough for me to compile everything I need, even if I put my data on > another EBS volume.... > > Second, the FreeBSD on EC2 page at > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ says that the first instance > of 8.2b-RELEASE is for t1.micro instances only, but when I start this > instance, I'm given the option of starting it as t1.micro, m1.small, or > c1.medium (the high-CPU medium option). In production I'd like to run > this as the m1.small or the m1.large instance; I guess there's no large > instance possible but is there any problem with using the small? Is > there any time frame for the availability of a large instance? I think > I'm going to need to use EC2 instead of buying a new physical server, > and I'd really rather stick with FreeBSD instead of moving to Debian.... > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > dont compile on the system build packages or tar up your /usr/local, and /var/db/pkg trees and deploy
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