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allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 16 Jan 2014 22:27
by jamaroney
My embedded install is on a HDD, with swap and data partitions as well. When first installing, I can select the size of my swap partition, but I can't change (make larger) the size of the boot partition. If I could choose, say 4GB, then that would cover me for future upgrades as they get larger (such as 9.2.0.1), so I can just keep doing simple upgrades instead of a fresh install whenever there's a major firmware change.
Re: allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 16 Jan 2014 22:42
by alexey123
No need resize boot partition. It have 512M, this size is more than enough
Re: allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:06
by jamaroney
Well, the boot size had to be increased for this latest release, so there's no guarantees that it won't happen again in the future.
Upgrading to 9.2.0.1 would have been much simpler if my boot HDD already had a larger system partition. And with an unreliable CD Drive, my otherwise fine older laptop doesn't like fresh installs.
Re: allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 21 Dec 2014 16:10
by uniss
alexey123 wrote:No need resize boot partition. It have 512M, this size is more than enough
I'm looking at extended gui page and it says: size of md0 is 100% occupied. How (and where), in this case, I could setup virtualbox?
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$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/md0 223M 223M 0B 100% /
/dev/ufsid/542f00690e440337 6.8G 12k 6.2G 0% /mnt/Flash
/dev/ufsid/52636ea2f3d5dfb0 3.5T 2.3T 1T 70% /mnt/wd1
/dev/ufsid/54469a8934f53c8b 3.5T 1.5T 1.8T 46% /mnt/wd2
/dev/md1 61M 23M 35M 40% /var
/dev/da0s1a 117M 114M 2.2M 98% /cf
but if you know a way to increase boot partition I will be grateful for your help.
Re: allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 28 Dec 2014 16:14
by silicium
jamaroney wrote:Well, the boot size had to be increased for this latest release, so there's no guarantees that it won't happen again in the future..
I also have a problem with this bloating featuritis trend, implementing planned obsolescence of too much hardware less than 10 years old. I had purchased a lot of 256MB CF cards for several thin clients and laptops, and would have to hack too much of the latest embedded release, or at least backport the fixes only into last 9.2.
For the latest release, I have one 512MB CF card that is a few MB shorter than the image size
So the solution is... build from source and take only what you need, you will learn a lot
Re: allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 29 Dec 2014 20:13
by Lee Sharp
The problem is that newer hardware requires newer images of FreeBSD which is larger. But the older versions did not suddenly go away. I have a few systems that will not run the newer images, but still work to serve files.
Re: allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 30 Dec 2014 00:46
by alexey123
uniss wrote:alexey123 wrote:
but if you know a way to increase boot partition I will be grateful for your help.
1. Backup config.xml on PC, not on nas pool
2. inspect your boot partition
result ~
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=> 0 1044162 da0s1 BSD (509M)
0 256032 1 freebsd-ufs (125M)
256032 788130 - free - (384M)
3. copy /cf content to any place .n I make copy to dataset
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cd /mnt/dataset
mkdir nasbackup && cd nasbackup
cp -r -p /cf/* .
4. Umount /cf
5. Resize it
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gpart resize -i 1 -s 1040000 da0s1
6 Format it
7 . Mount back
8. Restore files from backup
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cd /cf
cp -r -p /mnt/dataset/nasbackup/* .
9. check
and
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gpart show da0s1
=> 0 1044162 da0s1 BSD (509M)
0 1040000 1 freebsd-ufs (507M)
1040000 4162 - free - (2.0M)
For me -work
Re: allow user to determine boot partition size w/ embedded
Posted: 01 Jan 2015 14:52
by jamaroney
That worked great - thanks!!