From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 14:35:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2750F106564A for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from lerwick.hopto.org (81-178-20-70.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19CE08FC0C for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:35:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1925 invoked by uid 98); 4 Mar 2010 14:49:42 +0000 Received: from 192.168.0.6 by polaris.lerwick.hopto.org (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.95.1/9971. hbedv: 7.9.1.53/7.1.6.174. spamassassin: 3.2.5. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.6):. Processed in 4.087754 secs); 04 Mar 2010 14:49:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO minuteman.lerwick.hopto.org) (192.168.0.6) by lerwick.hopto.org with SMTP; 4 Mar 2010 14:49:38 +0000 Message-ID: <4B8FC52C.1030809@lerwick.hopto.org> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:35:24 +0000 From: Craig Butler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091221 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matt@webcontracts.co.uk References: <5f2fd5523c5fb10e82e49e7250430ab7.squirrel@www.webcontracts.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5f2fd5523c5fb10e82e49e7250430ab7.squirrel@www.webcontracts.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root on ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:35:43 -0000 On 04/03/2010 11:53, Matthew Law wrote: > I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot > > I got to this section: > > "Create bootdir directory where the boot file system will be mounted: > > # mkdir /tank/bootdir > # ln -s bootdir/boot /tank/boot" > > I am confused about the symlink line - what is 'bootdir' ? > > Thanks, > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Matt bootdir is where the ufs boot partition gets mounted on further down in the instructions... The symbolic link is to keep everything in order when; * upgrading or installing a new kernel * updating any of the boot configs. Regards /Craig B