On 01/08/13 23:38, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2013-01-04 00:41, Aaron Mason wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera >> <h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm curious as to why growfs is not included in bsd.rd. Is there any >>> particular reason for this? I belive it would be inmensly useful - since >>> bsd.rd is the first thing one would think of when needing to grow a root >>> partition (or a partition you don't want normally want to unmount). >>> >>> I've googled a bit, but haven't found anything related. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> Hugo Osvaldo Barrera >>> >> >> It's not too difficult to add tools to the ramdisk. >> >> http://www.thats-too-much.info/2013/01/04/work-smarter-not-harder-roll-your-own-openbsd-ram-disk/ >> > > My goal with this email was rather aimed to suggest growfs be included, > or to ask why it isn't, I've found I can easily mount /, copy growfs, > and umount / as a quick workaround anyway.
space is at a premium on the ramdisk kernels. Since there's a "quick workaround", I think I'll take drivers or other things where there is no workaround... Nick.
