n Systems Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel
>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:22:36 -0800
>
>[...editing...]
>> > > I'd like
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:33:11PM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> >
> > I'm on tangent mode this afternoon, so this is not a direct reply.
> >
[excellent explanation that makes perfect sense snipped for brevity]
Even if there's nothing else gained by this discussion, can
Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Chad R. Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001120 23:44]:
> >
> > Our Pyramids, running DC/OSx 1.1 have 16 partitions per hard drive.
> > DC/OSx is/was the reference port of SysVr4 to the MIPS chipset, done
> > under contract by Pyramid for Unix System Lab
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:
> I know of no Unix variant with more than 8 partitions/ disk
OpenBSD has 16 / disk.
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:50AM -0600, FreeBSD wrote:
>
> The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ...
> disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't.
>
> I've never been a fan of this. May I make a recommendation (flame away,
> boys): r
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:03:56PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
>
> I'd like to see FreeBSD do the same as Linux on the i386 - use only
> the partition table, along with extended partitions. Do away with disklabel
> *on that platform*.
This would be a bad idea IMNSHO. Remember that you can only have
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith
writes:
> > As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather
> > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For
> > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture
> > entirely. I think that
> As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather
> than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For
> that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture
> entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires
> an fdisk
