Re: fdisk MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!

2018-05-14 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 12:33:40PM +, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > So please describe more in detail what kind of backuping you want. > > I just want to regularly rsync /home to the "backup" partition > with some history (along the lines of > > https://netfuture.ch/2013/08/simple-versioned-timema

Re: fdisk MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!

2018-05-09 Thread Rodney Polkinghorne
> Think of the fdisk partition as a way to mark off a part of the disk for > OpenBSD. It should generally be one contiguous block. The beginning of > *the* OpenBSD partition holds the disklabel, which is the important part > for marking off OpenBSD disk (sub?)partitions. I think it would it be h

Re: fdisk MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!

2018-05-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
> So please describe more in detail what kind of backuping you want. I just want to regularly rsync /home to the "backup" partition with some history (along the lines of https://netfuture.ch/2013/08/simple-versioned-timemachine-like-backup-using-rsync/ ). This partition (or part of it) will late

Re: fdisk MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!

2018-05-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/09/18 05:06, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello misc, > > I wanted to use a MBR partition for backup purposes, > so I (almost) created (using fdisk) another OpenBSD MBR (A6) > partiotion, but then I got the message > > MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition! > Write MBR anyway? [n] > > So

Re: fdisk MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!

2018-05-09 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:06:24AM +, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello misc, > > I wanted to use a MBR partition for backup purposes, > so I (almost) created (using fdisk) another OpenBSD MBR (A6) > partiotion, but then I got the message > > MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition! > Write M

fdisk MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!

2018-05-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello misc, I wanted to use a MBR partition for backup purposes, so I (almost) created (using fdisk) another OpenBSD MBR (A6) partiotion, but then I got the message MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition! Write MBR anyway? [n] So am I doing it wrong? Thanks for comments! Ruda