Hammer FS: imposing a size limit on PFS?

Matthias Schmidt matthias at dragonflybsd.org
Mon Feb 23 10:48:23 PST 2009


Hi,

* Jurij Kovacic wrote:
> Hello fellow DragonFly users,
>
> I have a newbie question:
> DragonFly 2.2 installer automatically creates PFSs for /home, /var, /usr  
>  and /tmp. Is there a way to limit the sizes of respective PFSs or do  
> you   have to create separate slices to acomplish this?

You do not have to take care about the sizes of the PFS.  They are all
on top of the native HAMMER partition so they share the capacity.  There
was a very good post from Matt on PFS some days ago ... so have a look in the
archives.

> On a side note - what would be the best source of information relating  
> to Hammer, apart from http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ and man pages?

Postings to the mailing lists and there are some presentations/podcasts
available.

Regards

	Matthias





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