Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-19 Thread Marc Espie
For people who really want to tinker with the ports system, perhaps non intuitively, bulk(8) is the manpage that contains the most exhaustive set of information about how you might want to configure your system and the choices involved.

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-18 Thread Renato Aguiar
"James Mintram" writes: > For context, I need erlang 24 + elixir 13 and the current packages > are older than that. Which is why I have found myself working > with ports almost immediately (pro level yak shaving..) There were a post in ports mailing list with a patch for erlang port update: ht

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-18 Thread deich...@placebonol.com
As a long time OpenBSD user I install from packages but also build from ports. There is a usage case for both, but realize building packages is not a "standard" system. Twenty years ago building packages from ports was the norm, but not today. 73 diana On April 18, 2022 9:35:27 AM MDT,

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 04:15:46PM +, James Mintram wrote: > Thanks for all of the very useful replies, I have managed to get > everything working. > > For context, I need erlang 24 + elixir 13 and the current packages > are older than that. Which is why I have found myself working > with po

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-18 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 01:36:18PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: [...] > > 2) Should there be a /usr/local/pobj partition created with correct mount > > options? (I appreciate building ports is an "advanced" thing to do - but it > > feels weird having to mess with partition layout after a fres

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
the installer creates partition layouts for a variety of _regular_ usage patterns. Both of these situations you describe are not the normal pattern. We don't want to over-allocate space to specific purposes like that. Other systems do one giant root partition and then avoid these space issues.

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-04-18, James Mintram wrote: > Hi. I am new to OpenBSD, so these questions come from my first > experience with the system. > > I selected the auto layout option when partitioning my 256GB drive. I have > then found issues while doing the following: > > 1) Cloning src from the github mirr