Re: [pfSense Support] Create larger embedded images
On 7/1/2010 3:45 PM, Trevor Benson wrote: > We have a few devices with sad drives we would like to use packages with and > configure extra steps into the shutdown to backup additional log data an some > small configurations to the /cfg partition. It would be useful to use the > rest of the 32G. We have a few systems we intend to build/customize packages > on as well, so storing the large image file wouldn't be a problem. > > If you have any hints that would be great, otherwise we will just follow the > nanobsd instructions as far as we can If you want to do all the math and figure out the partition, slice, sector, etc, sizes it is certainly possible, but as long as you're doing unsupported things, you may as well just use fdisk to make the rest of the media another partition, newfs it, and then edit fstab to mount it. Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Create larger embedded images
We have a few devices with sad drives we would like to use packages with and configure extra steps into the shutdown to backup additional log data an some small configurations to the /cfg partition. It would be useful to use the rest of the 32G. We have a few systems we intend to build/customize packages on as well, so storing the large image file wouldn't be a problem. If you have any hints that would be great, otherwise we will just follow the nanobsd instructions as far as we can Thanks Trevor On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Alan Worstell > wrote: >> Hello, >> I am trying to figure out if I can somehow create a larger than 4gb image. I >> want to install the embedded version to a spinning hard drive (so it's only >> mounted read-only and logs are written to ramdisk) and yet still make use of >> the entire drive, so it would have something like 2 40GB partitions. Can >> anyone give me an idea of how to do this? >> > > Why would you want to? > > You can, it would be ugly to make it that big. That would be a single > 80 GB file uncompressed. You can change the platform to make it read > only, but you're not going to use all that disk space if you're > running read only, so might as well just write the 4 GB image. > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Create larger embedded images
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Alan Worstell wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to figure out if I can somehow create a larger than 4gb image. I > want to install the embedded version to a spinning hard drive (so it's only > mounted read-only and logs are written to ramdisk) and yet still make use of > the entire drive, so it would have something like 2 40GB partitions. Can > anyone give me an idea of how to do this? > Why would you want to? You can, it would be ugly to make it that big. That would be a single 80 GB file uncompressed. You can change the platform to make it read only, but you're not going to use all that disk space if you're running read only, so might as well just write the 4 GB image. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
[pfSense Support] Create larger embedded images
Hello, I am trying to figure out if I can somehow create a larger than 4gb image. I want to install the embedded version to a spinning hard drive (so it's only mounted read-only and logs are written to ramdisk) and yet still make use of the entire drive, so it would have something like 2 40GB partitions. Can anyone give me an idea of how to do this? Thanks, -Alan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
