From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 21:09:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19660 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:09:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19619 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:09:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA00959; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:07:23 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711180507.AAA00959@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? In-Reply-To: <19971117210512.32531@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Nov 17, 97 09:05:12 pm" To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:07:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John-Mark Gurney said: > John S. Dyson scribbled this message on Nov 17: > > I'd actually like to look into a mini-root system, to virtually eliminate the > > need for a fixit floppy. That mini-root would not normally be mounted, but would > > be there when you need it. I sure wish that floppies were always 100MB :-). > > why not dedicate 32megs of another hard drive to a backup root? I've > now decided to put a 32meg root on all hard drives even if they aren't > going to normally boot from... (what's 32megs from 2gigs? :) ) > That works well also. It would be kind of nice to come up with an automatic mini-root setup. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com