Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> writes: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:24:31AM -0000, David Lord wrote: >> >> My attempts at an install system from a usb stick >> eventually worked well and was useful on my systems >> without cdrom drive. Unfortunately I managed to >> overwrite it. There were two downsides to my usb >> stick, although on a 16 G stick I only had about >> 500 MB of space with install system taking up most >> of that, secondly it was painfully slow. >> >> I've just now reinstalled the stick with 5 GB used >> for the filesystem: >> >> Filesystem Size Used Avail >> root_device 4.9G 443M 4.2G > > Can it be extended to use the whole 16G? That could be handy as a > transportable Live system. > >> It needs some cleaning up but it boots ok. >> >> I also have NetBSD-6.1_STABLE-i386-live-sd0root.img.gz >> built from sysbuild, that can be transferred using 'dd'. > > And this can be dd'd to a USB stick as a bootable live system? Is it > possible to extend the image to use all the space on the USB stick?
makefs(8) has some flags to set free space on the file system and/or to set total size of file system image. -- HE CE3OH...
