I've been following the above mentioned thread because I wasn't convinced by the new bsd installer on my latest installation. Now, the problem that I am seeing is no longer the new installer but that I am obsolete in modern freebsd disk partitioning options and reliability of each. I've been doing it the same way since before "the turn of the century" (13 or 14 years). Hopefully I'm not alone.
If such a thing exists, I need a howto in mixing and matching all the different partitioning options and combinations, pro's and con's, for as many modern situations as possible. Any suggestions appreciated. I did look at the handbook but it seems to have changed little and uses sysinstall for the examples at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html#SYSINSTALL-FDISK2 Thanks for any suggestions. I apologize for my ignorance. ed P.S. I have wanted to understand and try things like the following comment to the thread, but I have no idea where to begin or options for doing it. Sorry, I wasnt suggesting that you should always mirror the indiviudual partititons - just I happen to do that where I am mixing ZFS and gmirror. Obviosuly you dont want to create lots of little mirrors if you dont have to. But even with one mirror, you can mirror a big partiton covering the whole drive, and then carve that up with bsdlabel. No need to ever mirror the actual raw discs, and it works with GPT. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
