On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:54:04AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem
> b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual
> device:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html
> and create a filesystem in that.
That's a very good idea. Performance would probably suck rocks.
OTOH, if you suddenly need to install X and so need another 200M,
growfs (available in -current only) might enable you to grow your
backing file, then grow the filesystem.
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Mike Bristow, seebitwopie
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