Bug 163051

I've run into the same issue on RC3, and would argue for higher severity 
and priority.  There does not seem to be a workaround in the 
installation process (e.g. the ability to add newfs flags during 
partitioning), and this prevents the completion of a desktop 
installation on a 10 gig VDI under VirtualBox.  Below is output after a 
basic XFCE setup and only a few applications:

Filesystem   1K-blocks      Used    Avail Capacity iused    ifree 
%iused  Mounted on
/dev/ada0a      515612    222640   251724    47%    2054    31224    6%   /
devfs                1         1        0   100%       0        0  
100%   /dev
/dev/ada0d     1031708     32700   916472     3%    2671    63375    
4%   /var
/dev/ada0e      515612      4184   470180     1%      20    33258    
0%   /tmp
/dev/ada0f     7220888   3761132  2882088    57%  440632    32966   
93%   /usr
procfs               4         4        0   100%       1        0  
100%   /proc

I agree that a simple check for disk size in the installer would be a 
reasonable solution.

Cheers,

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   Jason W. Bacon
   Systems Programmer
   UITS High Performance Computing Group
   University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
   bacon@uwm.edu
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Comment 2 Jason W. Bacon 2012-01-24 03:40:57 UTC

FWIW: I've used this script to work around the issue until greater 
control is available in the installer:

#!/bin/sh -e

##########################################################################
#   This script reformats /var, /tmp, and /usr with different FS
#   parameters.  It was written for the purpose of increasing the number
#   of inodes on a FreeBSD 9.0 system with a small disk (such as a
#   VirtualBox VDI).  FreeBSD 9.0 uses a large default block size,
#   resulting in too few inodes on /usr for a typical desktop system.
#
#   This script must be edited to suit your system.  It was tested on
#   a 10G VDI with the following partitions:
#
#   /     ada0p2    1G
#   SWAP  ada0p3    1G
#   /var  ada0p4    512M
#   /tmp  ada0p5    512M
#   /usr  ada0p6    7G
#
#   On this system, the script increased inodes on /usr from about 500,000
#   to about 3,000,000 (using 4096 byte blocks and 512 byte fragments).
#
#   It assumes you have enough space on / to store gzipped tarballs of
#   /var, /tmp, and /usr.  For a fresh installation with a ports tree
#   but no ports installed, this requires about 300mb.
#
#   I do not recommend using this script on anything but a fresh
#   installation.  Doing so could result in loss of data.
##########################################################################

# Edit these parameters to match your needs and partitions
block_size=4096
fragment_size=512
var_dev=/dev/ada0p4
tmp_dev=/dev/ada0p5
usr_dev=/dev/ada0p6

cd /

if [ ! -e var.tgz ]; then
     printf "Packing /var...\n"
     tar zcf var.tgz --exclude var/.sujournal var
     df -i /var

     umount /var
     newfs -b $block_size -f $fragment_size $var_dev
     mount /var

     printf "Unpacking...\n"
     tar zxf var.tgz
     df -i /var
fi

if [ ! -e tmp.tgz ]; then
     printf "Packing /tmp...\n"
     tar zcf tmp.tgz --exclude tmp/.sujournal tmp
     df -i /tmp

     umount /tmp
     newfs -b $block_size -f $fragment_size $tmp_dev
     mount /tmp

     printf "Unpacking...\n"
     tar zxf tmp.tgz
     df -i /tmp
fi

if [ ! -e usr1.tgz ]; then
     # Back up commands and libs needed to unpack after reformatting
     printf "Backing up up /usr/bin and /usr/lib\n"
     cp -R /usr/lib /usr.lib
     cp -R /usr/bin /usr.bin

     printf "Packing /usr...\n"
     tar zcf usr.tgz --exclude usr/.sujournal usr
     df -i /usr

     # Reformat
     umount /usr
     newfs -b $block_size -f $fragment_size $usr_dev
     mount /usr

     # Commands and libs needed to unpack were in /usr, so use backups
     printf "Unpacking...\n"
     export PATH=${PATH}:/usr.bin
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr.lib
     tar zxf usr.tgz
     df -i /usr
fi

Comment 3 Eitan Adler 2017-12-31 07:59:12 UTC

For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 4 Mark Linimon 2021-06-30 00:40:10 UTC

^Triage: close as OBE.

I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion.