From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 4 7:11:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2B4F37BF7A for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 07:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ronald@klop.yi.org) Received: (qmail 90113 invoked from network); 4 May 2000 14:11:52 -0000 Received: from dlanor.evertsen.nl (ronald@10.0.0.3) by node11a94.a2000.nl with SMTP; 4 May 2000 14:11:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 16:11:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Klop To: Nils Holland Cc: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 May 2000, Nils Holland wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > Perhaps its time to up the default suggested size of / ? In this day and > > age of 13G IDE drives, having 150MB for root would be a more safe value no > > ? On the machines I configure I generally give myself this much at least. > > Having read this, I wonder how I can change the size of / without having > to re-install the whole system. Currently I'm using the default size > FreeBSD has choosen for /, but what do I do if the default size should > some day turn out to be too small, I think a re-installation is required > then, isn't it? I also think that the FreeBSD installation program should > should rather create a bigger than a too small / by default. Many users, > especially those installing FreeBSD for the first time, cannot forsee the > size they could need in the future and so they decide to let FreeBSD set > the size of the slices since they think that's the safest bet. These users > will get pretty mad when they note that after some time they get serious > problems with the size of their root partition. As far as I know you can't change the size of filesystems in freebsd. (Of course it's possible, but I don't know the tool to do it.) But you can place /tmp on a different filesystem (mount it, not a symlink, because you will not have a tmp when booting single user otherwise.) Because this is the only directory in the root partition which is written on, it's the only one which may give problems. Greetings, Ronald. PS: another way to do this is dump a backup, reinstall a minimum FreeBSD with different sizes and restore the backup. -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message