From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 9:12:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5243F37B404 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E9443E3B for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g94GDgM2022321; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:13:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g94GDgnm022320; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:13:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:13:42 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Nick Tonkin Cc: Ruben de Groot , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble mounting the root filesystem Message-ID: <20021004161342.GA22262@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20021004132804.GA21467@ei.bzerk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:06:18AM -0700, Nick Tonkin typed: > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:02:24PM -0700, Nick Tonkin typed: > > > > > > Just installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a shiny new box with a Promise Fasttrack > > > 100 onboard ATA RAID controller. > > [ snip ] > > > > Oct 3 23:00:17 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory > > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > > > You can not just put /etc on another filesystem. Many scripts and files > > (/etc/rc, /etc/fstab to name two) are needed early in the boot proces, when > > only root is mounted. This has nothing to do with your raid controller. > > > That sounds like exactly it! I created a slice for /etc since I thought > the default size for the / slice (256Mb) was too small. Thanks a > million. Off to rebuild! Wonder of there's a way to change the slices > around without re-installing everything. Well, there's growfs(8), but I've never used it. Other than that you can of course dump - repartition - and restore. But from my experience, 256Mb is more than enough for the root partition (including /etc, which is usually small). When I started using FreeBSD (4.2-RELEASE) I think the default size for / was about 40Mb. Good luck. > > - nick > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message