Default parameters for NanoBSD

[Karl Denninger]

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....

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