Hello,
I'm following the raidz[1] and mirror[2] guides for a ZFS root.
For a test installation on a 5 disk Virtualbox environment.
I see that all the disks get the same partitions, including swap and boot?
Why is that? And do I need those 5 boot and swap partitions?
Thank you for your time,
On 12. mai 2013, at 15:21, Roland van Laar rol...@micite.net wrote:
I see that all the disks get the same partitions, including swap and boot?
Why is that? And do I need those 5 boot and swap partitions?
You don't need them, but there's a good chance you'll want them.
Long story, short
notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so if
disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat May 11 13:20:41 2013
config:
NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank
On May 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote:
notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so if
disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two
The zpool mirror does not mirror the bootblock. You need to manually
add that to all
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote:
On May 12, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote:
notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so if
disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two
The zpool
You may not want to mirror the boot block. That way you can update one
boot block, test it before copying the other. If the new boot block
fails to boot, the BIOS should go to the next hard drive and boot the
mirror. I don't know if it's possible to detect which drive you're
actually
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list,
because people are not required to subscribe to post.
That makes sense and does
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Please Cc responses to the mailing list
I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing
lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays
provide an option to automatically
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Please Cc responses to the mailing list
Actually, I had written that in a reply.
I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing
lists nowadays it's
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list,
because people are not required to subscribe to post.
That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the
list,
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Please Cc responses to the mailing list
I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing
lists nowadays it's common to reply to the
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Dear Mr. Block, Greetings. Thank you for your response to my message.
Your instruction to change the name of the disk drive from ah0 to aha0
worked. I can now boot FreeBSD. The next trick will be to attempt to
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several
people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made
significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the
boot loader. The handbook
Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several people
who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress,
but am now flummoxed at the installation of the boot loader. The handbook says
to run this command, boot0cfg -B ad0. When I run this
Hi,
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT)
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several
good morning,
people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made
significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 on
a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do not
wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall to
skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an error message
to skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an error message
that it cannot write a certain file because the medium is write-only. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. Yours truly, Newby Lee
You're trying to install to your windows partition, that won't work.
You need free space on the drive
Hi Lee,
One option to have a FreeBSD system on winxp, without any partitioning to the
existing hard disk, is to have freebsd as a vm on virtualbox. For having a dual
boot system you would need to partition the existing disk . If you have a
second had disk you could select it and let FreeBSD
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 9.1 on
a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using bsdinstall. I do not
wish for the partition table to be changed. How do I instruct bsdinstall to
skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an error message
Lee,
Are you using DOS-style or GPT partitions? I'm assuming DOS-style,
and the rest of this email is only correct if that's the case, so
correct me if I'm wrong.
There's actually two partition tables at work here -- the big one,
that lives at the start of the physical disk and divides up the
with the regular installer.
Install - Keymap..., Hostname..., [*] doc games lib32 ports [ ] src -
Partitioning: Manual - ada0s1 57GB BSD - Auto - ada0 ok - Partition
(not entire Disk) -
Add Partition
Type: freebsd
Size: 2551kB
Mountpoint
*?* continuing didn't work
Regards,
Ralf
Since partitioning didn't work with FreeBSD 9.0 64bit, I tried PC-BSD
8.2 64bit and partitioning worked.
I had PC-BSD installed on ada0s1, this was the fstab:
/dev/label/rootfs0 / ufs rw,noatime
1 1
/dev/label/swap0none
Screenshots from Linux's GParted:
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php
Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install
FreeBSD on /dev/sda1.
I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /,
know if gpart supports
BSD-typical partitioning (i. e. partitions inside a slice)...
Option: The partition data has been lost. Only the slice enclosing
them has been kept.
So I neither can install FreeBSD, nor can I restore the dumped PC-BSD.
Is there no easy to use partitioning tool
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Screenshots from Linux's GParted:
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php
Judging from the screenshots, /dev/sda1 = /dev/ad0s1, a
DOS primary partition,
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
ada0 298 GB MBR
ada0s1 57 GB freebsd
ada0s2 240 GB EBR
[snip]
gpart show also doesn't display the 3 ufs and the swap any more.
Did it previously show them?
Yes, they
...
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Screenshots from Linux's GParted:
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php
Judging from
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Screenshots from Linux's GParted:
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php
Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install
FreeBSD on /dev/sda1.
it previously show them? I don't know if gpart supports
BSD-typical partitioning (i. e. partitions inside a slice)...
Yes, it does. But it won't show them unless you look in ada0s1.
bsdlabel partitions are inside slices.
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This is what I've got:
# gpart show ada0
= 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 121274683 - free - (57G)
[snip]
IIUC I now have to do:
# gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0
# gpart add -s 8G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 256k -l root0 ada0
to format
them with newfs. If I see this correctly, you have created
one big / partition (for everything); this is _valid_ and
possible, but may be less optimum for a couple of reasons.
Doing functional partitioning requires at least an idea
of how much disk space will be needed per functional part
On 2012.11.25 12:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Here I already don't understand how large the swap should be. Really 2 *
size of the RAM?
It depends on use patterns and the amount of RAM in your computer. 1.5*
to 2* installed memory is a traditional works for most value, but I
feel it's outdated for
/ partition (for everything); this is _valid_ and
possible, but may be less optimum for a couple of reasons.
Until now I haven't done anything. It's still free.
Doing functional partitioning requires at least an idea
of how much disk space will be needed per functional part,
and this can differ
I'm reading http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html at
the moment.
Seemingly there are many outdated howtos first hits for searching with
Google. I frst read 64k for boot and now 512k.
IIUC Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition has to be done
and is independent of the
On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
IIUC Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition has to be done
and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR.
Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR,
and the Linux partition where the bulk of it is installed).
At the moment I still have:
This is what I've got:
# gpart show ada0
= 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 121274683 - free - (57G)
[snip]
Regarding to http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
for my set up it should be ok to run:
# gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l boot
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:13 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
IIUC Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition has to be done
and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR.
Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR,
and the
for this
case in specialized Linux distributions.
Doing functional partitioning requires at least an idea
of how much disk space will be needed per functional part,
and this can differ from use as server or desktop, or what
kind of software you run.
On Linux I only use /.
Yes, this is common
# newfs -U /dev/gpt/root
Maybe you would also consider using -J (journaling). Still the
traditional approach when using functional partitioning is to
format the / partition without soft updates (-U), but in your
case, using them on a everything in one / partition is okay.
# gpart bootcode -b /boot
On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency
scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work?
I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it
wouldn't do any hamr either. The /boot/gptboot code to be written weighs
On 25/11/2012 12:29, Polytropon wrote:
Won't be wrong; my understanding of the rule was 2 * size of
_possible_ RAM in the machine. But disk space is cheap, so
8 G should be fine. But again, the requirement for the swap
partition depends on what you're doing with the machine and
what you're
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 15:10 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency
scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work?
I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it
wouldn't
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:37 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
BTW, I still have some Atari ST hardware here. Impressive what has
been possible with this (quite limited) machines, but with _efficient_
programs...
I still have the C64 in some cartons and the Atari ST is still beside my
PC, but I don't
Polytropon, I'll use journaling.
I've to apologize for my broken English.
Regarding to the comment line my question is, if it's enough to us a #
at the beginning, or if it's needed to begin and to end with a #. I
suspect just a # at the beginning is needed.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:42:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Polytropon, I'll use journaling.
That should give you additional security in integrity,
especially on a everything in one / partition.
I've to apologize for my broken English.
No understanding problem here.
Regarding to the comment
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
This is what I've got:
# gpart show ada0
= 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 121274683 - free - (57G)
[snip]
IIUC I now have to do:
# gpart add -s 64k -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0
# gpart add -s 8G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0
# gpart
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:49 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
Realize this multi-boot stuff is painful and inconvenient and install
everything in a VM?
Unfortunately this is impossible.
I'll install FreeBSD, because there's a driver for my sound card, a RME
HDSPe AIO, that perhaps enables to use all
Hi Warren,
On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
good.
Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
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On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 02:22 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
Hi Warren,
On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
good.
Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
Create a partition for /.
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote:
For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is
good.
Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
The second only is only relevant to GPT.
We went over
from Lynn Steven Killingsworth blue.seahorse.syndic...@gmail.com:
I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say.
The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and
another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr
disk with zfs
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:33:16 -0400, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote:
I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say.
The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs
and another which is on
Dear FreeBSD -
I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say.
The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and
another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr
disk with zfs and move everything from the ufs disk and then
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote:
I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say.
The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and
another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr disk
with zfs and move
I am trying to install 9.0 on a small notebook on which I have
previously successfully installed 8.2.
I don't get very far. When defining partitions I have opted for Guided
and chosen a drive with enough space (3.5GB), Entire disk. I am then
asked if I'm sure I want to proceed, to which I
El día Monday, January 16, 2012 a las 09:45:23AM +0100, Bernard Higonnet
escribió:
I am trying to install 9.0 on a small notebook on which I have
previously successfully installed 8.2.
I don't get very far. When defining partitions I have opted for Guided
and chosen a drive with enough
On 16/01/2012 09:55, Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Monday, January 16, 2012 a las 09:45:23AM +0100, Bernard Higonnet
escribió:
I am trying to install 9.0 on a small notebook on which I have
previously successfully installed 8.2.
I don't get very far. When defining partitions I have opted for
I booted the 8.2-RELEASE CD on my Intel mac mini, which has a thumb drive
plugged into USB.
I promptly entered FIXIT and used dd to zero out the ENTIRE internal hard
drive. I may use it, I may not, but for now I want to reduce variables and I
don't want remnants of OSX on that disk tripping
Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote:
How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start
afresh?
gpart destroy ad4 ??
Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions.
Think of it this way: you must go backwards down the path you
just came with a delete for
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:35 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote:
How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start
afresh?
gpart destroy ad4 ??
Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions.
Think of it this way: you must
On 5/6/11 7:03 AM, Robert Simmons wrote:
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote:
# gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR
# gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container
# gpart create -s bsd ad4s1 # Init with a
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote:
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
There's a sample in the second half of my disk setup article:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
Looks good. I have a few critiques:
1) Linux and FreeBSD
Hi:
I just realized how many years ago I haven't been partitioning any disks
.. this system is so stable :) So, now I see I have gpart as alternative
to fdisk/bsdlabel.
I have a 320GB disk which will be dedicated to FBSD, is there any
advantage - or any problems (problems as in I've never
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote:
- or any problems (problems as in I've never tried that before) - using
gpart instead of the old scheme?
Sorry for the double post, but the only problem that I've encountered
is after creating a encrypted provider with
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote:
I just realized how many years ago I haven't been partitioning any disks ..
this system is so stable :) So, now I see I have gpart as alternative to
fdisk/bsdlabel.
gpart(8) from my experience is far superior to all
archive, I've posted basic instructions for
gpart/GPT partitioning recently, perhaps there needs to be a section
added to Handbook 18.3.2 describing the basics. Unfortunately, the
only mention in the handbook is a link to the man page in section
18.3.
There's a sample in the second half of my disk
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
There's a sample in the second half of my disk setup article:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
Looks good. I have a few critiques:
1) Linux and FreeBSD do not have alignment requirements, as far as
with the proper bootcode for what you want to do. If you
search this mailing list's archive, I've posted basic instructions for
gpart/GPT partitioning recently, perhaps there needs to be a section
added to Handbook 18.3.2 describing the basics. Unfortunately, the
only mention in the handbook
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:40:22 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
following sequence:
# gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR
# gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote:
Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
following sequence:
# gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR
# gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container
#
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:59:44 AM Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:40:22 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
following sequence:
# gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:03, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote:
Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
following sequence:
# gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:03, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote:
Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
following
a fair amount
of RAM. (And I don't care about crash dumps on this box.)
The boot sector doesn't really matter as much; if I go with a dedicated
swap partition that will probably also hold the boot sector. Otherwise, I'm
leaning towards the SSD, as I'm already planning on partitioning
I think you may be agonizing to much. You would have to to seriously bad
to make it slow and even then its a relative thing.
Giving it 4GB ZIL, 8 GB swap, and 28 gb l2arc will make it rapid and cover
you for most things. Putting the swap on the 250 gig drive wont make much
difference though
on this box.)
The boot sector doesn't really matter as much; if I go with a dedicated
swap partition that will probably also hold the boot sector. Otherwise,
I'm leaning towards the SSD, as I'm already planning on partitioning that,
and I'm less likely to pull it out.
Or, of course
So I've hot a 60GB 2.5 IDE Hard Drive in a USB Enclosure. Thing works like
a champ, even in FreeBSD. I'm curious the best (or most efficient?) way to
cut the drive up. My Goal is to have a bootable slice (5ish GB for the
latest stable DVD), some free space if I need to write to a location
reliably
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Some points - I've done most of these...
1. Grub can boot from a secondary partition (my current laptop has a
recovery partition in 1, vista (b) in 2, fbsd in 3, and linux in 4
as 2 secondary partitions.) works fine. Grub doesn't boot vista
correctly, but handles bsd fine and (of
2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson jorg_anders...@lavabit.com:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all
I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this
still the case?
They show up just fine here
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote:
I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD
8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as
well as CentOS 5.3 Linux.
Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary
ill...@gmail.com skrev:
2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson jorg_anders...@lavabit.com:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all
I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this
still the case?
They
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote:
FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really
see your problem. You are not using Microsloth for anything.
That's
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote:
FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really
see your
I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD
8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as
well as CentOS 5.3 Linux.
Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions - slices
in the FreeBSD parlance, if I understand correctly:
- A
2009/4/26 Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com:
I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD
8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well
as CentOS 5.3 Linux.
Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions - slices in
the
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.comwrote:
I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD
8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well
as CentOS 5.3 Linux.
Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all
I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this
still the case?
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AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
some people rarely boot other OS :)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:28:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a
Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
So you've never booted from a disk that
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
So you've never booted from a disk that has been partitioned as a file
system?
dedicated mode increase the space available to use?
Partitioning normally takes up space so a HDD loses about 10% of usable
space doesn't it, so the space used by partitioning is can now be used
as filespace.
No. Slicing and Partitioning take up negligible space. Building
a file system on the disk
time I used anything else.
So you've never booted from a disk that has been partitioned as a file
system?
You are getting your terms scrambled here.
Partitioning has nothing directly to do with creating a file system.
You can build a filesystem (with newfs) on just about any piece
of disk whether
I have never booted a FreeBSD system from a disk which
contained any other operating system.
I have only used dangerously dadicated mode for FreeBSD,
except when sysinstall made selecting/implementing that too much
work.
almost like me except i don't use sysinstall, and manually
to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
So you've never booted from a disk that has been partitioned as a file
system?
You are getting your terms scrambled here.
Partitioning has nothing directly to do with creating a file system.
You
mount point
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
2) Does using dedicated mode increase the space available to use?
Partitioning normally takes up space so a HDD loses about 10% of usable
space doesn't it, so the space
Da Rock writes:
Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?
Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else.
2) Does using dedicated mode increase the space available to use?
Partitioning normally takes
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