On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 11:31:25AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 06:43:45AM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote: > > Or maybe you're pointing out the "25%" etc. sizing behaviors of the > > NetBSD sysinst; I hadn't quite worked out how exactly to make the > > non-default /tmp partition in sysinst -- so far I've just been using the > > "Set sizes of NetBSD partitions" menu selector, but I also see "Manually > > define partitions" and other things, so I figured I'd be able to find a > > sufficient hammer with some more poking around. > > Oh indeed, it is not as easy as I thought it would be - neeed to hack > on sysinst again and make this better. > > There is no easy way in sysinst to do a /tmp partition with tmpfs right now, > you need to work around this by: > > - at the "choose partition sizes" stage > > 1) set /tmp to size 0 > 2) add a user defined partition for mountpoint /tmp2 and give it the > size you want > > - at the next "partition details" stage (you will notice /tmp vanished, > corrctly for a tmpfs thing, but /tmp2 is still there) > > 1) edit the /tmp2 entry and fix the mount point to /tmp, and select > whatever file system you want to use
Yes, this workaround is close to what I ended up doing. That is, I added "/tmp2" during "Set sizes of NetBSD partitions" and then re-did fstab and the mount & perms during my post-install configuration activities. It's not particularly elegant, but it's mostly functional for now. Your in-sysinst workaround is likely better. I considered trying "Manually define partitions" but I'm not familiar enough yet with NetBSD partitioning to do that on the fly; I plan to explore that part of the sysinst menus again later after taking notes. Ultimately I was able to get the partitions layout I wanted, along with separate /home/, so I'm pretty satisfied overall. > You can't add the correct partition at the first stage because even with > size 0 and tmpfs magic it won't allow you specifying /tmp again for another > partition. This obviously is a bug. Agreed, I tried a couple things at the "25%" menu selector but couldn't work out how to do away with tmpfs /tmp altogether from there in one move. Thanks, sr.
