Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 02:58:58 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD Message-ID: <babf662e-cded-4a2c-b5e8-c5a7175739f2@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <18e1a7e9-07d8-43a2-96af-0acdab6c2920@gmail.com> References: <7b384ac0-9b24-43a4-bf63-012d745155a7@gmail.com> <aKD970iOlzyQNi0d@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <18e1a7e9-07d8-43a2-96af-0acdab6c2920@gmail.com>
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On 17/08/2025 01:55, Graham Perrin wrote to freebsd-pkgbase: > Subject: Using pkgbasify to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD > 14.3-RELEASE > <https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/9570092c127bd43777961b6f016e75ba>; The routine is effective, to the best of my knowledge, however it's not particularly attractive. At least: - the condensed steps will be too long for some users - the first step assumes that the operator will have local access and a USB memory stick. I love this response to the Foundation's recent Community Check-In: > … it would be nice to have something like 'recovery partition', as some OSes have. or at least some tiny fail-safe feature. having remote machine in some distant datacenter, booting from a flashstick is always a problem. <https://witter.cz/@klokanek/115083259795252616>; An enhancement to bsdinstall could, before creation of the partition table, allow the user to specify an amount of space to be left free at the end of a device …home | help
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