From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 21:02:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35D5F58D for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 21:02:01 +0000 (UTC) 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 F354C2E85 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 21:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-19-118.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.118]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s72L1xR9018793 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 16:01:59 -0500 Message-ID: <53DD533D.7090700@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 16:08:13 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.3 new install problems .... References: <53DAFCF2.2070909@hiwaay.net> <53DB9797.1010702@hiwaay.net> <20140801164335.GA16376@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DBF71D.3080807@hiwaay.net> <20140801232843.GB17393@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DCF32A.30700@hiwaay.net> <20140802185442.GA28910@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <20140802185442.GA28910@slackbox.erewhon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 21:02:01 -0000 On 08/02/14 13:54, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 09:18:18AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>> I poked around a bit (*not* much), & missed anything RAID-related in the >>>> installer .... is that on me ? The FreeBSD doc site seemed to imply that >>>> I would need the shell approach to do what I wanted, so I mostly just >>>> went w/ that, maybe more pilot error :-/ .... >>> Personally, to keep things simple I like to install FreeBSD on a simple UFS >>> partition. >>> >>> Once the system is up and running I can then mirror/raid the data drives any >>> way I choose. >>> >>> There is a wiki page about setting up FreeBSD on a mirrored ZFS boot drive >>> though; https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE >>> >>> >>> Roland >> >> I tried that & it worked, I am up & running, but on only 1/4 drives. I know >> ZFS can add drive/providers to stripes or mirrors, how about UFS ? I can >> create the stripe for /home & arrange for that to be mounted, but what about >> root ? Is there a way to create a stripe from 1 or more possibly partitions >> ? TIA for any more clues .... > You can create a stripe from devices, not from partitions, AFAICT. See > gstripe(8). Unlike ZFS (where you can add disks to an existing pool), I don't > think you can later add devices to an existing gstripe. > > I'd suggest that you create a raidz pool from the remaining devices, and use > that for whatever filesystems you like. You can have multiple filesystems on > one zpool, and they will share all the space in the pool. > > > Roland I like ZFS, but I decided that my puny little 25W 1.3 ghz CPU was gonna choke on checksums & not get anything else done, hence the switch back to UFS. I came up w/ a slightly hairbrained solution. I created a stripe of the 3 remaining 20 GB partitions, copied everything under /usr over to it, & plan to mount it as /usr. 1 question: as of now, /usr is taking up 1.1 GB out of 1.7 GB on my 20 GB root partition. With such a limited root FS, I want every available byte available for duty. Is there any way to delete what's under /usr on the fly before the mount of the /usr stripe to recover that space back for the rest of the install ? I have only done the base install as of now, will be installing X, XFCE, LXDE, & who knows what else .... P.S. sorry for me klutzy nomenclature, I am calling /dev/ada0p3 a partition, when as you correctly observe it is a device .... my bad, & maybe the source of confusion in my posts :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.