Why not ZFS by default?
Images are compressed before distribution. I assume that compression is very effective for:
Why is so little of the disk given to the swap partition? 1 G is, I believe, false economy.
Below, with UFS (9.6 G used) and so little swap:
Prior to that, nothing exotic. Essentially, I:
Images are compressed before distribution. I assume that compression is very effective for:
- non-used space (free, never used) in file systems
- non-used swap space.
Why is so little of the disk given to the swap partition? 1 G is, I believe, false economy.
Below, with UFS (9.6 G used) and so little swap:
- 2,048 MB memory was insufficient to start the system
- a drop into single user mode
- unable to execute
sh
Prior to that, nothing exotic. Essentially, I:
- downloaded the 2021-05-27 (8d5c7813061) FreeBSD-provided image for 14.0-CURRENT on AMD64
- temporarily gave more memory to the system
- grew the disk to 128 GB
- booted in single user mode
gpart recover ada0
service growfs start
exit
pkg install poudriere-devel
- used poudriere to test packaging of a new port (<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30534>)
- installed the package
pkg install xorg
startx
- ran the new application, quit
exit
shutdown -p now
- reduced the memory – assuming that 2,048 MB would be enough to start FreeBSD.