Re: installing on a VPS

[Al Zick <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost>]

On Sep 6, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 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.

I really don't know what I have wrong. So, I included my fstab and  
disklabel for wd0

# cat /etc/fstab
# NetBSD /targetroot/etc/fstab
# See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
/dev/wd0a               /       ffs     rw               1 1
/dev/wd0b               none    swap    sw,dp            0 0
kernfs          /kern   kernfs  rw
ptyfs           /dev/pts        ptyfs   rw
procfs          /proc   procfs  rw
#/dev/cd0a              /cdrom  cd9660  ro,noauto
tmpfs           /var/shm        tmpfs   rw,-m1777,-sram%25



# disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: unknown
disk: wd0
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16644
total sectors: 335544320
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a: 327155472        63     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl.       
0*- 324559*)
 b:   8388608 327155535       swap                     # (Cyl.  
324559*- 332881*)
 c: 335544257        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.       
0*- 332881*)
 d: 335544320         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.       
0 - 332881*)

# grep resize /etc/rc.conf
resize_root=YES

# df -h
Filesystem         Size       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
/dev/wd0a          7.3G       1.9G       5.0G  27% /
kernfs             1.0K       1.0K         0B 100% /kern
ptyfs              1.0K       1.0K         0B 100% /dev/pts
procfs             4.0K       4.0K         0B 100% /proc
tmpfs              2.0G         0B       2.0G   0% /var/shm

Like I said not sure what I have wrong.

Kind Regards,
Al