Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:23:51 +0200 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gptzfsboot grew a lot after skein support was added; need knob to control bloat Message-ID: <73E29022-B9EB-4F9E-B2E1-E3FAA027EE41@me.com> In-Reply-To: <EB309E42-BEA6-49DF-BF34-172076851891@gmail.com> References: <A33154F2-70E1-4047-8496-7D4D85CFF292@gmail.com> <EF719374-BF9D-44EF-9F45-53B2B506047C@me.com> <CANCZdfrzOr3YdbAKRrwUXsFDhdQ3hErf1vbYSG7MdpV_m%2B=YRQ@mail.gmail.com> <EB309E42-BEA6-49DF-BF34-172076851891@gmail.com>
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> On 27. jaan 2017, at 22:16, Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >=20 >> On Jan 27, 2017, at 09:05, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >=20 > ... >=20 >> I'm curious why you can't find the space for a bigger partition? >> Almost all drives these days are partitioned with a little wasted >> space, and that wasted space should be more than enough to cover us >> here. Also, most drives have a swap partition that can be shrunk a >> trivial amount to get space for this... >=20 > Unfortunately, in my infinite wisdom (IIRC) I put the zfs partition = before the swap partition. >=20 > We have a similar problem at work with sys/boot unfortunately, but = that's a side discussion for another time/place. >=20 > Thank you for the idea though -- I'll check when I get back to work. >=20 > -Ngie Note the order of the partitions is not important, at least on paper = anyhow. Of course there are preferences in sense that it does look nice = if freebsd-boot is in front. Also, if you do have mirror setup, it is = some work, but you can re-arrange mirror side partitioning (with usual = cautions like having scrub done, having backup, having third disk would = be helpful). rgds, toomas=
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