Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:58:58 UTC
On 17/08/2025 01:55, Graham Perrin wrote to freebsd-pkgbase: > Subject: Using pkgbasify to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD > 14.3-RELEASE > <https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/9570092c127bd43777961b6f016e75ba> The routine is effective, to the best of my knowledge, however it's not particularly attractive. At least: - the condensed steps will be too long for some users - the first step assumes that the operator will have local access and a USB memory stick. I love this response to the Foundation's recent Community Check-In: > … it would be nice to have something like 'recovery partition', as some OSes have. or at least some tiny fail-safe feature. having remote machine in some distant datacenter, booting from a flashstick is always a problem. <https://witter.cz/@klokanek/115083259795252616> An enhancement to bsdinstall could, before creation of the partition table, allow the user to specify an amount of space to be left free at the end of a device …