Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-26 Thread lists
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:27:53 + John Long > > Ideally, the auto partition could have templates, for the cases you > > have. > > I think this is a good idea but I guess a lot of people will bang you > on the head for suggesting it ;) > I don't know that I have ever seen the one-size fits

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-26 Thread John Long
> > Seems to me, after trying to install OpenBSD on a new box, a lot of > > the helpful in the FAQ is totally AWOL now and I find it hard to > > get all the info together. > > Hi John, > > Person came from somewhere and cut out a lot of the useful hardware > info. > At least now it's

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-26 Thread lists
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:37:32 + John Long > On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 17:16 +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > Do you want to really build all ports or just fetch skeletons and > > build some of them? > > Not sure, but I don't want to rule out building them all for a couple > or reasons. I have a new box

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-26 Thread Solene Rapenne
Le 26 juin 2018 16:49:57 GMT+02:00, lea.chesco...@tutanota.com a écrit : >Personally, what i always do, (i dont know if its the best practice, >but it fixes my storage space problems, as i always use -stable, and >build the updated ports) is to make a symlink in /home > >Initial configuration >  $

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-26 Thread lea.chescotta
Personally, what i always do, (i dont know if its the best practice, but it fixes my storage space problems, as i always use -stable, and build the updated ports) is to make a symlink in /home Initial configuration   $ cd /home   $ doas mkdir ports   $ doas chown -R user:wsrc ports   $ cd ports

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-26 Thread Solene Rapenne
John Long writes: > Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. > > What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for people > who want to track stable and possibly build the whole ports tree? > > Thanks, > > /jl hello If you want to do a bulk build (aka whole

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
Thanks @bryanharris and @bruno Thanks guys, I will check out the links. /jl

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread Bryan Harris
The webserver is called httpd (not the apache one). I like this book but some people don't need the extra help of a book (I do). https://www.michaelwlucas.com/tools/relayd On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:49 AM John Long wrote: > On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 10:15 -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > > Here is my

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread Bruno Flueckiger
On 25.06.2018 14:17, John Long wrote: Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for people who want to track stable and possibly build the whole ports tree? Thanks, /jl Check the detailed explanation given by

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 10:15 -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Here is my df -h output -- Just as an FYI I was testing some > workarounds for the samba virusfilter issue and then made some > mistakes that screwed up KDE etc. So decided to build it from > scratch > and have about 5000 packages

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting John Long : On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 09:25 -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: Quoting John Long : > Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. > > What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for > people > who want to track stable and possibly build the whole

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 09:25 -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Quoting John Long : > > > Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. > > > > What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for > > people > > who want to track stable and possibly build the whole ports tree?

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 17:16 +0300, IL Ka wrote: > Do you want to really build all ports or just fetch skeletons and > build some of them? Not sure, but I don't want to rule out building them all for a couple or reasons. I have a new box which is probably fast enough to make it worthwhile to build

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting John Long : Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for people who want to track stable and possibly build the whole ports tree? Thanks, /jl Hi, Hopefully more knowledgeable people may give us

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread IL Ka
Do you want to really build all ports or just fetch skeletons and build some of them? For skeletons, automatic layout is good enough, but I recommend to increase /usr/src a little and decrease /home. Make sure you have ~ 5GB for /usr/src/ and /usr/obj. On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:17 PM, John

Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for people who want to track stable and possibly build the whole ports tree? Thanks, /jl