Hello,
I'd like to run pfSense on an Alix board (2c3) with an external USB 2'5
drive, to have access to packages (bandwidthd ...). I've done a setup which is
working (booting from a CF, then mounting USB disk drive, as Alix card can't
boot on USB), but I have a problem with partition layout on the USB disk :
in my first setup, I used the whole disk (a big one, more than 200G !) to put
pfSense system (so a slice for swap and another for the system), but the
resulting disk can't be mounted on my personal computer with Linux (the kernel
is complaining about the incorrect/unknown partition scheme). I done some
trials, and found that if I do some partitions or some more slices, it works
better, so I'd like to divide the disk, but I don't know which is the best
choice :
- adding a partition, perhaps in ext2 linux fs
- adding a slice (in UFS)
The other question is where I could mount it : i don't know where the packages
put their data (/var ?) and where some room may be important. I could also
mount the new partition/slice on an unused dir, like /data, and then use
links/binds if it exists in BSD ?
Note that having smaller partitions (especially for the system) would let me
copy a disk to its backup disk (similar one) more quickly, as I only know a raw
'dd' to do it on my Linux system (and this takes hours).
Do you also have a recommendation about the system's partition size ?
Thanks,
Fred.
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