Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:14:42 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall fails to re-allocate disk space. Message-ID: <A9EE3F76-6B5C-44A7-8C4D-703D652CF93F@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <20071123163315.23b539b0@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <1195488856.19739.42.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <200711231446.lANEklZV083952@fire.js.berklix.net> <20071123163315.23b539b0@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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Am 23.11.2007 um 16:33 schrieb Gary Jennejohn: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:46:47 +0100 > "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> wrote: > >> Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 Available >>> The 7.0-BETA3 builds are now available. If you would like to >>> download >> >> I installed 7.0-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (after checking md5 on cd) on >> a 4G disc >> I told sysinstall: >> Use whole disc >> A For Auto defaults. >> It allocated 9M for swap ! >> I deleted swap & /usr to get space, >> Allocated 100M for swap. >> It said not enough space (despite 3G free !) >> > > My goodness, Julian. A 4GB disk. To be fair, you can nowadays get 4 GB flash-"disks". Or a micro-drive. I'm still toying with the idea to build a home-server with something like that (plus external "real" storage). I suspect, though, this isn't what Julian hat in mind :-) > > I suspect that a n00b wouldn't dream of trying to use a disk that > small. > I suspect that he wouldn't even know that disks that small exist(ed). > "No, it's not 40 GB, it's 40 MB". > Using such a small disk is something for an expert, in which case said > expert would do the expert install and first allocate space for > swap and > the rest as one file system. That method would probably yield the > desired > results. > Indeed. Greetings to Munich. cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE rainer@ultra-secure.de
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