Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:26:01 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ross Kendall Axe <ross@axe.homelinux.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot on a separate partition Message-ID: <p06230956bf02e59c17f2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <42DC1173.6020307@axe.homelinux.net> References: <42DC1173.6020307@axe.homelinux.net>
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At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition >at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall >is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to >diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration? I doubt you can on FreeBSD. The problem is that the OS would have to mount both / and /boot before it could do anything, and FreeBSD doesn't do that. It assumes the partition that you are loading from is '/', and uses that to find (for instance) /etc/fstab so it can find out what the other partitions are. I know that linux supports this, as well as some other clever trickery with partitions at system-startup, but FreeBSD doesn't. >I don't particularly want to go for the standard 'small / partition >and separate partitions for /usr, /var, /home...' since I only have >a 1GB drive to play with and judging the partition sizes down the >nearest KB would be... tricky. Create a small-ish / partition, a swap partition, and huge /usr partition. FreeBSD creates a symlink from /home to /usr/home, so your home directories are in /usr anyway. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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