From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 23 21:41:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE5016A418 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB4613C43E for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 19131 invoked by uid 89); 23 Nov 2007 21:28:36 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 19115, pid: 19117, t: 4.0572s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:44/d:4673 spam: 3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.200?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.71.83.52) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 23 Nov 2007 21:28:31 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20071123163315.23b539b0@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <1195488856.19739.42.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <200711231446.lANEklZV083952@fire.js.berklix.net> <20071123163315.23b539b0@peedub.jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Rainer Duffner Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:14:42 +0100 To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall fails to re-allocate disk space. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:41:42 -0000 Am 23.11.2007 um 16:33 schrieb Gary Jennejohn: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:46:47 +0100 > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > >> Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 Available >>> The 7.0-BETA3 builds are now available. If you would like to >>> download >> >> I installed 7.0-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (after checking md5 on cd) on >> a 4G disc >> I told sysinstall: >> Use whole disc >> A For Auto defaults. >> It allocated 9M for swap ! >> I deleted swap & /usr to get space, >> Allocated 100M for swap. >> It said not enough space (despite 3G free !) >> > > My goodness, Julian. A 4GB disk. To be fair, you can nowadays get 4 GB flash-"disks". Or a micro-drive. I'm still toying with the idea to build a home-server with something like that (plus external "real" storage). I suspect, though, this isn't what Julian hat in mind :-) > > I suspect that a n00b wouldn't dream of trying to use a disk that > small. > I suspect that he wouldn't even know that disks that small exist(ed). > "No, it's not 40 GB, it's 40 MB". > Using such a small disk is something for an expert, in which case said > expert would do the expert install and first allocate space for > swap and > the rest as one file system. That method would probably yield the > desired > results. > Indeed. Greetings to Munich. cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE rainer@ultra-secure.de