Re: installing on a VPS

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 01:11:50PM -0400, Al Zick wrote:
> Okay, I tried disabling the re driver with userconf. I booted up and it
> seemed to work fine. However, after many reboots, while it was booting I did
> get one rtk0: watchdog timeout. I am not sure if this is anything to be
> concerned about or not.

If it's only one it should be harmless.

> 
> There is also the issue of resizing the / partition. I use disklabel -e wd0.
> Then "A", next I change the size of partitions. I already had added
> resize_root=YES to my rc.conf, but it didn't resize. After trying many
> different things, I was able to corrupt the root partition, so now it only
> boots if I run fsck_ffs manually.

Do you have log option for / in the fstab ?
If so that's why resize_root didn't work.

You can remove log from fstab, reboot and once root has been resized,
add log back.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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