Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:35:59 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Bernard Dugas <bernard@dugas-family.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size Message-ID: <20081216123057.M61117@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <49478749.2030200@dugas-family.org> References: <20081216094719.EDCEE1065675@hub.freebsd.org> <49478749.2030200@dugas-family.org>
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> on NFS server. > > Lot of root directories can be shared and mounted in fstab, after booting > process : /usr, /home... > > In current solution, the minimum root directories i had to keep for managing > to boot are : > bin libexec sbin boot etc lib i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: mount / readonly, put everything here. in /etc put /etc/rc consisting only #!/bin/sh exec /systemrc in /systemrc put something like that: #!/bin/sh echo -n Mounting workstation config directory... #get your IP or MAC address using ifconfig,grep,cut,awk,how you like #put to to say MYIP /sbin/mount_nfs yournfsserver:/clients/etc/MYIP /etc echo done exec /etc/rc please then add: /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/run, possibly /var/log as tmpfs in fstab OR mount it with per-station directory the same way as /etc I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. you may like to make /etc-common directory and put most of files there, and symlinks in each station's /etc
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