Default parameters for NanoBSD

[Fabien Costard]

Le 10/09/2019 à 15:53, Warner Losh a écrit :
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> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 3:28 AM Fabien Costard <fabien.costard at free.fr 
> <mailto:fabien.costard at free.fr>> wrote:
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>     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 ?
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>
> 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

What I just mean is if you just use the nanobsd.sh script without 
touching anything it fails with the message: 
"/usr/obj/nanobsd.full/_.mnt: write failed, filesystem is full".

But I totally agree about the size and my next step is to work on that 
optimization :-)

Fabien