On 9 October 2011 19:54, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> One issue that has not come up on the emailing list is that dd, designed to > work with memsticks of various capacities, can not make the backup gpt at > the end of the memstick. > > Partition is just big enough to hold the data, and I ran out of inodes at > times due to the installer writing to /tmp on the memstick. > > Maybe a script to put a backup GPT at the end on the memstick, and make the > second partition fill the space available so as not to be too tightly > squeezed? > A script is a kludge. As we have no need for larger than 2TiB install images we should use the POLA and continue to support dd writing our memstick images which means don't use GPT for them. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
