From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 15:42:58 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 105A2106566B for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:42:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE748FC15 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qw0-f54.google.com with SMTP id z32so6774299qad.13 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:42:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=IYsSJHnU2EnduTlxlPRXsuIrqE7p/RlPLkEd9tTQ/Oo=; b=dXTOFiD5HXIqF6ZpkMmn5NQ8XaRTTUxNMlJfUStASwF3HplDov2WJNRhb9tOszricc WzR1NYytE5eU01W2k0INnWD+hyArUWlVjUFjhXPcVav5Jvn7Xe3F2GWoRQC/yajGVbUq kZuAzDte7cGlEXljzCLwXvIO5X4KSVBKTGWM0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.94.200 with SMTP id a8mr3118450qcn.128.1320075777484; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.220.69 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:42:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111031130827.GA8861@panix.com> References: <20111031130827.GA8861@panix.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:42:56 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: Jesse Sheidlower Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 15:42:58 -0000 On 31 October 2011 13:08, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > dont compile on the system build packages or tar up your /usr/local, and /var/db/pkg trees and deploy