Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:50:14 -0500 From: lankfordandrew@charter.net To: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Root partition and usrland on one slice, /usr/local ports and src on another Message-ID: <YfqE1w00H3jxklw01fqESe@charter.net>
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When I installed FreeBSD 10 on an old laptop, I wanted to merge both=0At= he root partition heirarchy (kernel /bin /sbin etc) and the rest of=0AFb= sd usr-land together onto one slice. I like upgrading from source,=0Abut= I do that more frequently with ports than the OS-proper. When I=0Aneed= to boot up single user, it seems rather quaint these days (at=0Aleast f= or a laptop user) to have to mount /usr in order to get=0Areasonably the= functionality from applications that use shared=0Alibraries (vi, man pa= ges, etc). The likelyhood that I'm going to fall=0Aback on a serial port= and an ASR-33 tty are nil.=0A=0ASo what I'd like to do is put the entir= e freebsd system on one fairly=0Asmall, pristine slice, but put the more= bloated and ephemeral src,=0Aports, /usr/local, /home portions on one b= ig slice. I tried symlinks=0Abetween "/src" or "/usr/src" and "/usr/port= s" and tweaking some build=0Avariables, but it seemed like something alw= ays breaks in some bizarre=0Away whenever I tried to rebuild world. I gu= ess a lot of the strange=0Abehavior showed up in /src/contrib and the gn= u licensed side of the=0Abuild system. Can anyone suggest some docs on /= src and ports,=0Aspecifically for what I'm trying to do besides "man src= "?=0A=0AAndrew Lankford=0A=0A
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