From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 9 20:40:06 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5AAEA016E5 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 598541477 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-222-143.knology.net [216.186.222.143] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t89Ke4Z8019824 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:40:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Storage question To: FreeBSD Questions References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> <55EFC2DA.3020101@hiwaay.net> <5EB5C2C2-575B-40BD-BF6A-85F396C058FE@kraus-haus.org> <55F058FC.6080204@hiwaay.net> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55F09924.2000007@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:45:34 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:40:06 -0000 On 09/09/15 15:08, Paul Kraus wrote: > I would never follow any instructions verbatim unless they did_exactly_ what I needed. I will also point out that while there are only one set of instructions for 9.x, the necessary steps changed as the minor revs of 9 went by. The instructions tended to apply to the latest and if you did not have a cache of the older instructions and needed to recover an older release you were in trouble. > > Follow the instructions through a few times by hand. Understand what they are doing and_why_, then script what_you_ need to do. For example, I never used as many different datasets under /var as indicated on that page. I just did not need that degree of control. You may need (or want) more. Actually, I do have 1 more question. Partway down in the setup, stuff is echoed to /tmp/bsdinstall_etc/fstab to setup swap, but nothing about the other parts of the FS (ZFS stuff) .... Is that AOK ? TIA & have a good one. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.