Default parameters for NanoBSD

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:59 AM Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:

> On 9/10/2019 08:53, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 3:28 AM Fabien Costard <fabien.costard at free.fr>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> This is a question about the default values used for the nanobsd.
> >> In the current default configuration (defaults.sh), the media size is
> >> set to 2000000 (NANO_MEDIASIZE=2000000).
> >> This size (1GB) does not allow to make an image when you follow the
> >> documentation online.
> >>
> >> I know that the purpose of the nanobsd is to make "light" FreeBSD system
> >> but would it be better to change the default media size when someone
> >> (like me) try to use and understand it step by step ?
> >>
> >> I found the media size have to be 9600000 (around 4.8GB) (to work with 2
> >> images)
> >>
> >> What do you think about it ?
> >>
> > I built an image yesterday, and 1GB was still large enough. What arch
> were
> > you doing? What other things went onto the package? FreeBSD itself,
> without
> > compilers, should clock in around 300MB.
> >
> > I have no problem bumping the size. Today it's hard to buy something
> > smaller than 16GB (though there's a lot of lots of 4GB and 8GB on amazon,
> > the sweet spot for price has moved to 32GB). It's likely time. I like to
> > keep it small because the images are copied around and that takes up
> space.
> >
> > Warner
>
> "xz" is excellent at turning a "sparse" NanoBSD file into something
> more-representative of the actual bits on the disk as opposed to the
> allocated size....
>

Dd that copies the partition still takes more time...

Warner

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