2010/11/30 Paul B Mahol <one...@gmail.com>: > On 11/30/10, David DEMELIER <demelier.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2010/11/30 Patrick Lamaiziere <patf...@davenulle.org>: >>> Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, >>> David Demelier <demelier.da...@gmail.com> a ecrit : >>> >>>> Hello, >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>>> We all know that we can only have 8 ufs partitions in one freebsd >>>> slice. Since OpenBSD and NetBSD can support at most 32 partitions >>>> iirc. >>>> >>>> I wonder why FreeBSD still lacks more ufs partitions in one slice? >>>> >>>> Is there any plan to grow up max partitions or every work is >>>> dedicated to ZFS? >>> >>> hmmm, isn't already done in 8.X ? >>> from what's cooking for FreeBSD 8.0 >>> http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html >>> << >>> bsdlabel gets extended to 26 partitions >>> >>> Status: Committed to -CURRENT >>> Will appear in 8.0: sure >>> Author: Marcel Moolenaar >>> Web: commit message >>> >>> bsdlabel is (finally!) extended to support more than 8 partitions. The >>> new limit of 26 partitions comes from the number of lower-case letters. >>> >>> To make use of this change, GEOM_PART needs to be used instead of >>> GEOM_BSD (this is default in 8.0 but will not work with older kernels). >>> >> >>> >> >> I don't have GEOM_PART in my kernel, but if you said it's default it >> should be pulled in. >> >>> Regards. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> But why : >> >> # /dev/md2s1: >> 8 partitions: >> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >> a: 10m 16 4.2BSD 0 0 >> b: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> d: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> e: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> f: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> g: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> h: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> i: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> j: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> k: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 >> >> c: 2047973 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't >> edit >> >> line 11: partition name out of range a-h: i >> line 12: partition name out of range a-h: j >> line 13: partition name out of range a-h: k >> re-edit the label? [y]: >> >> I'm on 8.1-RELEASE. > > To make use of such feature you need to recreate table with gpart(8). > > bsdlabel is not going to work. >
mark...@melon ~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile.img bs=1m count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 2.095537 secs (50038530 bytes/sec) mark...@melon ~ $ sudo mdconfig -a -f myfile.img -u 2 mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s MBR md2 md2 created mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart show md2s1 gpart: No such geom: md2s1. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd md2 md2s1 added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs md2s1 gpart: No such geom: md2s1. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD md2s1 md2s1 created mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 md2s1a added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 md2s1b added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 md2s1d added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 md2s1e added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 md2s1f added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 md2s1g added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 md2s1h added mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 gpart: index '9': No space left on device mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1m md2s1 gpart: index '9': No space left on device Maybe I really need GEOM_PART? Or I'm doing something wrong. -- Demelier David _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"