On 2017-01-26 18:50, Alan Somers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) > <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I tried upgrading one of my workstations and unfortunately the >> freebsd-boot partition is too small (I follow manpage directions, exactly, >> and those seem to be too small as of 10.3-RELEASE timeframe), and I don’t >> have enough space or ability to resize the partition and make it bigger. So, >> I’m in need of a build knob to control the bloat, and/or having an >> alternative boot loader without geli/skein/crypto support compiled in. Would >> you be opposed to the work? >> Thanks, >> -Ngie > > We have this problem at work too. We deal with it by defining the > following in src.conf. The build system already knows about this > variable, though it isn't in src.conf's manpage. > > LOADER_NO_GELI_SUPPORT=1 > > -Alan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
Yeah, most of the size is from the GELI support, not Skein, so that is your best starting place. I also have some work in progress with tsoome@ to further shrink things for you. -- Allan Jude
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