Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:48:26 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Minimum size of freebsd-boot Message-ID: <20180621184826.9ae9ed8d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <024a7da5-4d80-960c-9479-34fef887ff35@yandex.com> References: <024a7da5-4d80-960c-9479-34fef887ff35@yandex.com>
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:45:38 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > Under GPT, FreeBSD needs a freebsd-boot partition of max size 512 KB. Is > there a minimum size too ? The minimum size depends on what you require on the /boot partition. The ZFS loader is bigger than the classic UFS-only loader. Older FreeBSD documentation suggested a smaller size (approx. 40 kB) which today probably wouldn't be sufficient. Note that the whole partition is loaded into memory. And partition alignment is also important. That's why 512 kB is a good value (2^9). :-) Subsequent partitions typically start at the next multiple of 1 MB (which fits both 512 B and 4 kB sector size). So you could try to create a smaller /boot partition, but the next one, maybe / or swap, would start at 1 MB anyway. Also see: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211361 https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-boot-size.64794/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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