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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:13:42 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        Nick Tonkin <nick@rlnt.net>
Cc:        Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trouble mounting the root filesystem
Message-ID:  <20021004161342.GA22262@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210040804350.76375-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>
References:  <20021004132804.GA21467@ei.bzerk.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210040804350.76375-100000@world.tonkinresolutions.com>

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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
> 
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