Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 13:16:02 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless Booting Can't Set /var in mfs larger than 4MB Message-ID: <AANLkTikcFsX_99OnljJkYpFN0JusLGjukd3qWSHL1jiL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <861376.41000.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <861376.41000.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 5/23/10, Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have a diskless workstation booting nicely but for some reason I cannot > get the /var directory to set larger than 4MB. The docs I read said edit > /pxeroot/conf/base/etc/fstab like this: > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > md /var mfs -s=30m,rw 0 > 0 > md /tmp mfs > -s=30m,rw 0 0 > proc /proc procfs > rw 0 0 > > When I do this the /tmp directory sets up in mds at 30MB in size. But /var > always comes up at only 4MB in size. Can anyone tell me how to adjust the > size of /var in a diskless setup? > have you tried the rc.conf variants? varmfs="AUTO" # Set to YES to always create an mfs /var, NO to never varsize="32m" # Size of mfs /var if created varmfs_flags="-S" # Extra mount options for the mfs /var populate_var="AUTO" # Set to YES to always (re)populate /var, NO to never cleanvar_enable="YES" # Clean the /var directory also has a tmp set of variables, too
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