From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 13:28:09 2011 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 E0AF3106566C for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:28:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jester@panix.com) Received: from l2mail1.panix.com (l2mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B408FC08 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:28:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by l2mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F94C1ED for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:08:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B046E286D5 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:08:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix3.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 834) id BFBBB8FDE0; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:08:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:08:27 -0400 From: Jesse Sheidlower To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111031130827.GA8861@panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: FreeBSD on EC2 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: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:28:10 -0000 I've been experimenting with FreeBSD on EC2, in the hopes that I can move some systems there. I'm pleased with the possibilities, but have a two initial questions: First, the t1.micro instance, which I'm starting with, is supposed to have 10 GB of EBS storage--1GB for the kernel on the boot partition, and 9GB for the rest. But my instance only has 4.8GB on root: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da1s1 4.8G 4.1G 332M 93% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/da0 1.0G 21M 944M 2% /boot/grub Where's the rest? I asked about this in the EC2 forums, and someone said that it's probably unformatted space on a different partition; if so, I could use some advice about adding this to the existing root partition, and I'm also curious why this would be set up like this. 4.8GB isn't enough for me to compile everything I need, even if I put my data on another EBS volume.... Second, the FreeBSD on EC2 page at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ says that the first instance of 8.2b-RELEASE is for t1.micro instances only, but when I start this instance, I'm given the option of starting it as t1.micro, m1.small, or c1.medium (the high-CPU medium option). In production I'd like to run this as the m1.small or the m1.large instance; I guess there's no large instance possible but is there any problem with using the small? Is there any time frame for the availability of a large instance? I think I'm going to need to use EC2 instead of buying a new physical server, and I'd really rather stick with FreeBSD instead of moving to Debian.... Thanks.