So, if I have an ALIX that I would like to upgrade, how much would I have
to increase /tmp and /var by to have the upgrade run to completion without
filling the partitions?


Walter


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Jim Pingle <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/11/2013 4:58 PM, Jens Kühnel wrote:
> > I'm not a FreeBSD expert, but /dev/md's are MemDiscs right?
> > Is there a reason why only 60MB (/var) and 40MB(/tmp/) are used?
> > and are where are possibilities to change that? It's not in the fstab!
>
> They are that small because ALIX is the usual NanoBSD target and it only
> has 256MB of RAM so it's a safe low default. NanoBSD wasn't originally
> intended to run on device with gobs of RAM, but times are a-changin' and
> before long all of the viable new hardware will have >1GB of RAM.
>
> On 2.1 you can adjust the /var and /tmp sizes under System > Advanced on
> the Miscellaneous tab.
>
> It might be possible to auto-scale the sizes with a bit of extra logic
> in rc.embedded if someone wants to take a crack at it.
>
> Jim
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