Well, 100mb might be relevant if you ever want to dual-boot. The relevant efi file seems to be < 100k
It may go up in size, but I doubt we will see a 100x increase. /A On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:03 PM, krad <[email protected]> wrote: > Its worth noting you should also go for GPT layout and have a 100meg or so > partition provisioned as well so you can do a uefi boot. Even if you arent > going to use it right now. > > > On 30 January 2017 at 03:41, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 30/1/17 2:20pm, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > And, you may be able to do that on the existing disks, as ZFS now > leaves > > a MB or two of "slack space" at the end of the device used in the vdev. > > This allows for using drives/partitions that are the same size in MB but > > have different numbers of sectors. This was an issue on the early ZFS > days. > > > > > > So, you may be able to resize the freebsd-zfs partition by a handful of > > KB without actually changing the size of the vdev. > > > > > > Brilliant, thank you. That worked a treat with a new boot size of 256k. > > > > > > Note that this page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ > RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror > > needs to be adjusted. This line: > > > > gpart add -b 34 -s 128k -t freebsd-boot ad0 > > > > needs to instead be > > > > gpart add -a 4k -s 512k -t freebsd-boot ad0 > > > > > > I don't have edit rights. Probably someone needs to clean up and merge > > many of these pages: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ > > > > > > Ari > > > > > > > > -- > > --------------------------> > > Aristedes Maniatis > > CEO, ish > > https://www.ish.com.au > > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
