Alexander, Yes, you've got a point. I'll think about it.
Cheers, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alexander Hall" <alexan...@beard.se> > To: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> > Cc: "Otto Moerbeek" <o...@drijf.net>, misc@openbsd.org > Sent: Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 00:29:38 > Subject: Re: Live resize / filesystem? > On 10/14/14 01:18, Nux! wrote: >> Alexander, >> >> Nice idea, better than getting stuck with same size. >> I know this is very relative, but which partition gets used most in OpenBSD >> in >> your experience? /var or /home? > > It depends. For a server, /var. For a workstation, probably /home. Both > of those should already be mounted at that time, though, so they are > probably not the easiest targets. > > I tend to add a larger /data, /bigtmp or /whatever, and then symlink > into it, potentially from various places. > > OTOH, if you cannot even say which one you need, why forcibly partition > and mount it? Just let it stay unpartitioned until really needed. > > Also please note that I forgot newfs + mount in my example. > > /Alexander > >> >> Lucian >> >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Alexander Hall" <alexan...@beard.se> >>> To: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro>, "Otto Moerbeek" <o...@drijf.net> >>> Cc: misc@openbsd.org >>> Sent: Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 00:13:14 >>> Subject: Re: Live resize / filesystem? >> >>> On 10/13/14 20:45, Nux! wrote: >>>> Otto, >>>> >>>> Thanks, but this will be a "cloud template", all other templates I'm >>>> building (linux, freebsd) expand partition and filesystem upon first >>>> boot, was hoping to achieve the same. Not sure how reinstall would >>>> help in this case, though I am open to any advice. >>> >>> Unless you really need a single large root partition, you can run >>> disklabel at first boot to create one or more partitions in the >>> unpartitioned space at the end of your disk. >>> >>> Sth like this in /etc/rc.firsttime: >>> >>> printf '%s\n' a p '' '' '' w q | sudo disklabel -E sd0 >>> echo '/dev/sd0p /data ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2' >> /etc/fstab >>> >>> /Alexander >>> >>>> >>>> Lucian >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >>>> >>>> Nux! >>>> www.nux.ro >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Otto Moerbeek" <o...@drijf.net> >>>>> To: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> >>>>> Cc: misc@openbsd.org >>>>> Sent: Monday, 13 October, 2014 19:43:42 >>>>> Subject: Re: Live resize / filesystem? >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:41:05PM +0100, Nux! wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks guys, I was hoping for a more optimistic feedback, at least I >>>>>> know not to >>>>>> waste too much time on this. >>>>> >>>>> Maybe just include bsd.rd and reinstall? >>>>> > >>>> -Otto
