Dmitry Marakasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Afaik, one is unable to boot from gpt partitions.
except on EFI machines (Itanium and Intel Macs), but it is possible to
combine GPT with an MBR such that you get a bootable partition (if
nothing else, GEOM allows you to stick a GPT in a partition or
:
:> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Marakasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
:Dmitry> * Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:>> felt that 8 partitions is restrictive. My main home server has 10
:>> and the main DragonFly box has 11.
:>>
:>> There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You
* David Gilbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Dmitry> About `lack' of partitions - don't forget that labels can be
> Dmitry> nested. Just do `bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s1e` - you'll get
> Dmitry> /dev/ad0s1ea.
> Don't also forget that gpt(8) exists and seems to provide for large
> numbers of partitions.
> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Marakasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dmitry> * Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> felt that 8 partitions is restrictive. My main home server has 10
>> and the main DragonFly box has 11.
>>
>> There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO*
>> h
* Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Oh, very cute! A terrible hack if you ask me, but cute all the same!
I don't consider it a hack. Pretty expected and consistent behaviour
- any block device (be it a whole disk or just a partition) is
scanned by geom for magic numbers, and if any found
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andreas Klemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Incompatible to UFS's like from Sun I think we are already, so we
: don't have to honour them. Remember a current thread in german BSD
: group where somebody complained about FreeBSD - mounting a Sun
: filesyste
:
:* Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
:> felt that 8 partitions is restrictive. My main home server has 10
:> and the main DragonFly box has 11.
:>
:> There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO* have
:> four slices to play with. You can put a dis
* Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> felt that 8 partitions is restrictive. My main home server has 10
> and the main DragonFly box has 11.
>
> There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO* have
> four slices to play with. You can put a disklabel wit
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:36:27PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> :> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> :
> :Hmm, for the sake of compatibility, wouldn't it have been an option,
> :to add this extra
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO* have
> four slices to play with. You can put a disklabel with 8 partitions
> in it on each one (for 32 total). It isn't as convenient, but it does
>
:On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
:> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
:> > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
:> > of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible.
:>
:> DragonFly disklabels allow 1
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick C. Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:33:41PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > "Small disk drive" means "smaller than any drive I can buy at the
> > local Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA/similar". At the time, I needed an
> > 80GB drive, and paid ab
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:33:41PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
>
> "Small disk drive" means "smaller than any drive I can buy at the
> local Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA/similar". At the time, I needed an
> 80GB drive, and paid about $60 for it.
Well then your comparison isn't really fair.. Sure,
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of
John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:58, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Right. I typically install / and /usr as distinct files systems
> > for just that reason (/ and /usr have different backup & recovery
> > strate
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick C. Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >Boxes are cheaper than disk space - my last two low-end boxes cost
> >less than my last small disk drive, even though I ordered them all
> >about the same time. If you can afford the disk for some process, then
Mike Meyer wrote:
>Boxes are cheaper than disk space - my last two low-end boxes cost
>less than my last small disk drive, even though I ordered them all
>about the same time. If you can afford the disk for some process, then
>chances are good you can afford a system instead, or as well.
I'm not
Mike Meyer wrote:
A further reason to separate partitions is that dump works at the level
of a partition. Different partitions may have very different backup
requirements, and for those of us without huge tape drives, partitioning
to a size that can be dumped on one tape makes life easier.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >> You assume that "running out of space" happens over time, but with some
> >>runaway process logging to a file, for example, the partition filling up
> >>will still happen without you expecting it. It might ta
Mike Meyer wrote:
You assume that "running out of space" happens over time, but with some
runaway process logging to a file, for example, the partition filling up
will still happen without you expecting it. It might take a bit longer
with a big disk, but 20 minutes instead of 5 minutes isn't
On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:58, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Right. I typically install / and /usr as distinct files systems for
> just that reason (/ and /usr have different backup & recovery
> strategies and I use dump, so that's why they are two partitions). So
> why does / need to be different from /var
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:25:28PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
> > > of course still my main Un
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Klemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:28:18PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > These days, the only technical reason I know of for having separate
> > mountpoints is because you want to run commands that work on
> > filesystems on the two parts wi
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael R. Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:28:18PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > These days, the only technical reason I know of for having separate
> > mountpoints is because you want to run commands that work on
> > filesystems on the two parts
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
> > of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible.
>
> DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entri
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:28:18PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick C. Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > > DragonFly disklabels allow
Mike Meyer wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick C. Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still lim
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick C. Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits
> > > it to 8. That's w
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >
> > DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits
> > it to 8. That's why you can't read it directly.
>
> Are there plans to bump the defa
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
> > > of course still my main Unix
>to followup myself ... I just see, we also have pack identifier,
>its the additional struct behind it that differs.
>"Bootstrap name" etc...
Those are parts of an union, so the total size still shouldn't
change. I'd guess that the char[] format is used on-disk
and the pointers are used in-memory
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
> > of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible.
>
> DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entri
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
> of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible.
DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits
it to 8. That's why you can't read it dire
to followup myself ... I just see, we also have pack identifier,
its the additional struct behind it that differs.
"Bootstrap name" etc...
Andreas ///
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