Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-03 Thread saeedeh motlagh
prefer to have more partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think). using GPT is the last solution for me. i should create more than 8 partitions with gpart command (flag n which identifies entries) but i have errors when using it. is there any special option which should

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-03 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, saeedeh motlagh wrote: thanks Carl, i tried your your manual step by steps on FreeBSD8.2 but error happened. this is what i've done: gpart create -s MBR ad3 ad3 created gpart add -t freebsd ad3 ad3s1 added gpart create -s BSD -n 20 ad3s1 gpart: geom 'ad3s1': File Exists if

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-03 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-06-01 08:40, s m wrote: hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more. i checked FreeBSD handbook, but it doesn't say anything about defining more partitions

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-02 Thread s m
thanks guys, i understand another solution is GPT partitioning. but i prefer to have more partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think). using GPT is the last solution for me. i should create more than 8 partitions with gpart command (flag n which identifies entries) but i have

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-02 Thread RW
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:35:58 +0430 s m wrote: thanks guys, i understand another solution is GPT partitioning. but i prefer to have more partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think). using GPT is the last solution for me. i should create more than 8 partitions with gpart

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-02 Thread saeedeh motlagh
partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think). using GPT is the last solution for me. i should create more than 8 partitions with gpart command (flag n which identifies entries) but i have errors when using it. is there any special option which should be included in kernel

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com writes: thanks guys, i understand another solution is GPT partitioning. but i prefer to have more partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think). using GPT is the last solution for me. i should create more than 8 partitions with gpart command (flag n

define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread s m
hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more. i checked FreeBSD handbook, but it doesn't say anything about defining more partitions. my question is: how can i define

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more. That's correct and expected for the MBR partitioning approach (which

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread s m
thanks for your reply, it is a good news if i can define more partitions with gpart. names are not so important for me. if i can define more partitions with gpart, are these partitions work correctly? you know i wan to define a journal partition for each partition on my freebsd. so if i use

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Robert Huff
s m writes: and my last question, some people say to change byte 0x28a of the disk from 0x08 to 0x14 (which 14 is the number of partitions). do you think it's a good idea and applicable solution? Short answer: if you have to ask - no, it isn't. :-) Respectfully

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread s m
writes: and my last question, some people say to change byte 0x28a of the disk from 0x08 to 0x14 (which 14 is the number of partitions). do you think it's a good idea and applicable solution? Short answer: if you have to ask - no, it isn't. :-) Respectfully

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more. That's correct and expected for the MBR partitioning

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: my question is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h, ad3s1i, ad3s1j, ...). You cannot. You need to use the GPT partitioning approach and repartition your disk

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 07:10:03 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: my question is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h, ad3s1i, ad3s1j, ...). You cannot. You

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 05:36:13 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Carl Johnson
s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com writes: hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more. i checked FreeBSD handbook, but it doesn't say anything about defining more

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:07:59 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: There is a package called 'linuxfdisk' that is just a FreeBSD implementation of the linux fdisk and will show you what the FreeBSD partitions/slices are. You can also use gpart in the base system to get the same information

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:07:59 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: There is a package called 'linuxfdisk' that is just a FreeBSD implementation of the linux fdisk and will show you what the FreeBSD partitions/slices are. You can also use gpart in the base

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:24:06 +0100, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: /dev/ada0s8 /u01ext2fs ro,noauto 00 I've got 2 ext3 partitions mounted. /dev/ada0s8 /mnt/dump ext2fs rw 0 0 /dev/ada0s9 /mnt/archlinux

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Walter Hurry
partitions/slices are. You can also use gpart in the base system to get the same information. The command 'gpart list ada0' will show the primary partitions, and the command 'gpart list ada0s4' should show the logical partitions inside of the extended partition. You can also use 'file -s

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: So it's my stupid mistake. I could have sworn it was ext2, but it was ext4. Sorry for all the noise! However, I'm glad you have helped, and that I have learned a little bit about Linux partitions as FreeeBSD slices. It was empty, so I just

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-26 Thread Walter Hurry
partitions as FreeeBSD slices. It was empty, so I just reformatted it as ext2, and hey presto; all is right with the world. Good to know you have it working, but for future reference there is a fuse implementation of an ext4 driver: sysutils/fusefs-ext4fuse EXT4 implementation for FUSE

Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-25 Thread Walter Hurry
9.1 on x86_64. No doubt this question has been asked before, but how do I mount logical partitions (e2fs) under FreeBSD? I have checked the handbook, and DuckDuckGo'ed, but without finding anything useful. The third slice on my first disk is a physical one, and will mount happily under

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/25/2013 5:36 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: 9.1 on x86_64. No doubt this question has been asked before, but how do I mount logical partitions (e2fs) under FreeBSD? I have checked the handbook, and DuckDuckGo'ed, but without finding anything useful. The third slice on my first disk is a physical

Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?

2013-01-25 Thread Carl Johnson
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: 9.1 on x86_64. No doubt this question has been asked before, but how do I mount logical partitions (e2fs) under FreeBSD? I have checked the handbook, and DuckDuckGo'ed, but without finding anything useful. The third slice on my first disk

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-05 Thread Fbsd8
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? I just installed 9.1R i386 for fun and practice, in fact I installed it several times, and I played around with the partitioning options

bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? I just installed 9.1R i386 for fun and practice, in fact I installed it several times, and I played around with the partitioning options. * The modern GPT scheme reserves 34

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.dewrote: Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? That's rather up to you. AFAIK it attempts to create partitions that preserve cylinder

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? I think the latest version does. I just installed 9.1R i386 for fun and practice, in fact I installed it several times

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Warren Block: * Funnily enough, the ancient BSD dangerously dedicated scheme is the only one that out of the box does not misalign partitions. The filesystems don't begin at the start of the slice anyway. There is a bsdlabel there. Yes and no. If you look at the bsdlabel(8) output

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Short version: Is it possible to group existing partitions into slices without affecting data? Long version: I had a disk sliced/partitioned like this: ad4s1 ad4s1a ad4s1b (swap) ad4s1d ad4s1e ad4s1f ad4s2 (storage) ad4s3 ad4s3a ad4s3b (swap) ad4s3d ad4s3e

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Snow Mountains
Thomas, thank you for reply! No, it wasn't dangerously dedicated disk. However, what is the exact command to add ad4s1 and ad4s3 using bsdlabel? Is it possible at all? I thought I should use fdisk or gpart for that. Thanks, Sergi M ___

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
such as ad4s1, ad4s2, ad4s3 and disklabel to subdivide a slice into FreeBSD partitions such as ad4s1a, ad4s1b, ad4s1c, etc. gpart is used to create GPT partitions such as ad4p1, ad4p2, ad4p3, etc. Subdividing a slice into FreeBSD partitions is used with MBR partition/slice table but not recommended

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Snow Mountains
Thomas, thank you very much for your mail, but that isn't what I asked. Of course, I know that bsdlabel -R ad0s1 new_label_file writes new labels to ad0s1. My question is: what to do if I _lost_ s1, s2, and s3 - how to recover _them_ first? Without that, all I can do is to write labels table

Re: Groupping restored partitions into slices

2012-11-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
table directly on ad0. SergiM. I thought you had found where the slices and partitions had been. Otherwise, if you only have the BSD partitions and need to label more than 8, there is gpart in FreeBSD base system and Rod Smith's gdisk, available in FreeBSD ports and also on the System Rescue CD

reverse label lookup for GPT partitions

2011-09-29 Thread Warren Block
'gpart show -l ad4' shows GPT labels on all the ad4 partitions. Is there a reverse lookup, say to find out the GPT label for ad4p4? Yes, it can be parsed out of 'gpart show -l' output, but anything more direct? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Can gpart create ntfs and FAT-32 partitions?

2011-07-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/28/2011 7:55 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: I want to create a GPT disk structure that has the following partitions: MBR NTFS (1.2G) NTFS (200G) FreeBSD OS (250G) NTFS (15G) FAT-32 (100G) (needs to be RW for W7 and FreeBSD and ntfs-3g is just not stable enough) FreeBSD data only (380G) The NTFS

Can gpart create ntfs and FAT-32 partitions?

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
I want to create a GPT disk structure that has the following partitions: MBR NTFS (1.2G) NTFS (200G) FreeBSD OS (250G) NTFS (15G) FAT-32 (100G) (needs to be RW for W7 and FreeBSD and ntfs-3g is just not stable enough) FreeBSD data only (380G) The NTFS partitions are to place the Windows7 system

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
the installation and operation of FreeBSD, within a logical patition of an extended partition ...? FreeBSD can mount and use filesystems created on partitions inside 'extended partition' type slices (cue standard exposition of the difference between partitions and slices in FreeBSD-speak.) True

Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-11 Thread Bret Busby
hello. Some time ago, I asked on this list, about installing FreeBSD, and it was then confirmed that FreeBSD requires to be installed in a primary partition. That is consistent with the current FreeBSD Handbook, which states FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition. However, in

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
of FreeBSD, within a logical patition of an extended partition, that has given a result that confirms that FeeBSD can now be successfully installed and run, in a logical partition of an extended partition of a hard drive? FreeBSD can mount and use filesystems created on partitions inside 'extended

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-11 Thread perryh
on partitions inside 'extended partition' type slices (cue standard exposition of the difference between partitions and slices in FreeBSD-speak.) True. However, I believe that you may well have difficulty *booting* FreeBSD unless the kernel (ie. /boot) can be read from a primary partition. I presume

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2011 20:00, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices.  With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and are seeking to

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread freebsd_user
Annotated below ... Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:17 PM, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: Annotated below ... Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Polytropon
partitions, drives and lines if needed. The positioning always depends on how much activity you expect on the certain file systems. You did get this idea already. Example: /usr is on prim. master, 2nd partition /usr/obj is mounted to /var/uobj on sec. master, 2nd partition You

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Keep in mind that performance across ad0 and ad2 is best. Masters are always good. Slaves are slower. Using primary and secondary in parallel works good, working on a master and a slave simultanously is worse. Your

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:07:20 -0500, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Your statement about master being faster than a slave is simply not true for almost every scenario when using devices with same capabilites. All master/slave really controls is enumeration, and shouldn't effect

IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread freebsd_user
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and are seeking to place four HDD’s on the main boards controllers. Our dilemma is

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and

Re: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions

2011-02-27 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of February 27, 2011 12:26:04 AM +, Slawomir Wojtczak is alleged to have said: ... but none of them seems to work, after installation it hangs at boot like that: http://ompldr.org/vN2tscQ --As for the rest, it is

ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions

2011-02-26 Thread Slawomir Wojtczak
. I know that there is way to do this on GPT partitions, but I need MBR ones ... Any help appreciated, vermaden ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions

2011-02-26 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 27, 2011 12:26:04 AM +, Slawomir Wojtczak is alleged to have said: ... but none of them seems to work, after installation it hangs at boot like that: http://ompldr.org/vN2tscQ --As for the rest, it is mine. Hmm. Interesting. I'm having the same result when trying the

Re: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions

2011-02-26 Thread Slawomir Wojtczak
Anything interesting happening during your install? I would say no, everything seems smooth until I try to boot it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions

2011-02-26 Thread Carl Chave
How long are you waiting? What are you booting from? On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Slawomir Wojtczak verma...@gmx.com wrote: Anything interesting happening during your install? I would say no, everything seems smooth until I try to boot it.

Re: Partitions greater than 1TB ?

2011-01-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
) which has a 2.5 TB RAID Array. It seems impossible to use the Freebsd sysinstall to partition this raid array disks. Correct. Currently sysinstall can only perform MBR partitioning (partitions limited to 2TB max). You want GPT partitioning. See gpart(8) -- Devin I get an error message when

Partitions greater than 1TB ?

2011-01-24 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm trying to install a new server ( HP Proliant 380 G7 ) which has a 2.5 TB RAID Array. It seems impossible to use the Freebsd sysinstall to partition this raid array disks. I get an error message when running the partitionner Error mounting /mnt/dev/da1s1e on /mnt/.user : input/output

Re: Partitions greater than 1TB ?

2011-01-24 Thread Devin Teske
MBR partitioning (partitions limited to 2TB max). You want GPT partitioning. See gpart(8) -- Devin I get an error message when running the partitionner Error mounting /mnt/dev/da1s1e on /mnt/.user : input/output error Anyone has infos about this problem ? Thanks

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12/01/10 21:23, David DEMELIER wrote: Yes it is just exercises, I heard bsdlabel was grow up so I wanted to test, now I don't really understand why it's fixed to 20 only. I also It turns out that something like 22.75 bsdlabel partition table entries fit in a 512 byte sector, so this was

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread Paul B Mahol
Lamaizierepatf...@davenulle.org: Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelierdemelier.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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread David DEMELIER
 wrote: 2010/11/30 Patrick Lamaizierepatf...@davenulle.org: Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelierdemelier.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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread Paul B Mahol
...@gmail.com: On 11/30/10, David DEMELIERdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/30 Patrick Lamaizierepatf...@davenulle.org: Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com a ecrit : Hello, Hello, We all know that we can only have 8 ufs partitions in one freebsd

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:51:48 + Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: [snip 9 levels of quoting] It is hardcoded. Not my code. Could you remember to remove excess quotes please? It's getting a bit ridiculous having to scroll past 50 lines to see a one-line reply :) -- Bruce Cran

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread krad
On 1 December 2010 14:13, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:51:48 + Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: [snip 9 levels of quoting] It is hardcoded. Not my code. Could you remember to remove excess quotes please? It's getting a bit ridiculous having to scroll

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/12/1 krad kra...@gmail.com: On 1 December 2010 14:13, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:51:48 + Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: [snip 9 levels of quoting] It is hardcoded. Not my code. Could you remember to remove excess quotes please? It's getting a

8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread David Demelier
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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Since OpenBSD and NetBSD can support at most 32 partitions iirc. I thought the limit was 26, as the letters a to z... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 11/30/10, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 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? Actually FreeBSD

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit : 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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/11/30 Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org: Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com a écrit : 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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread Paul B Mahol
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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread David DEMELIER
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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread Paul B Mahol
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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread David DEMELIER
, 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

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-11-30 Thread David Demelier
, David Demelierdemelier.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

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-25 Thread perryh
CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: ... I hope it makes sense! No problem with the explanation making sense; what I don't follow is the behavior of bsdlabel. Given the way I set it up this drive _should_ contain _two_ labels, but for some unfathomable reason bsdlabel seems to be using

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-24 Thread perryh
CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: If the kldstat Id numbers are assigned sequentially, it looks as if geom_journal got loaded first and this may somehow be related (although I don't entirely see how -- absent geom_mirror to make gm0 and its partitions visible, I'd think

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-24 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 11/24/2010 04:52 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: It looks to me as if gjournal is confused: It is not gjournal that is confused; it's bsdlabel. The gjournals lie entirely within the partitions defined within the bsdlabel, and don't care about anything outside of that. The ambiguity here

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
the order of these settings in loader.conf makes any difference). If the kldstat Id numbers are assigned sequentially, it looks as if geom_journal got loaded first and this may somehow be related (although I don't entirely see how -- absent geom_mirror to make gm0 and its partitions visible, I'd

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-23 Thread krad
entirely see how -- absent geom_mirror to make gm0 and its partitions visible, I'd think that geom_journal should not be able to find its metadata at all). From what I've found, this is because there is no taste difference between a bsdlabel on a gmirror and a bsdlabel on a non-mirror. Since both

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-22 Thread krad
On 21 November 2010 06:10, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Is there something wrong with this sequence, in Fixit: * create a mirror * partition it with disklabel * create journals on the partitions * install * reboot? After rebooting, the mirror had disappeared and the journals seemed

Re: a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-22 Thread perryh
difference). If the kldstat Id numbers are assigned sequentially, it looks as if geom_journal got loaded first and this may somehow be related (although I don't entirely see how -- absent geom_mirror to make gm0 and its partitions visible, I'd think that geom_journal should not be able to find its

a gmirror disappears after adding gjournals to its partitions

2010-11-20 Thread perryh
Is there something wrong with this sequence, in Fixit: * create a mirror * partition it with disklabel * create journals on the partitions * install * reboot? After rebooting, the mirror had disappeared and the journals seemed to exist directly on partitions of the mirror's provider rather than

nanobsd upgrade partitions

2010-05-17 Thread Dimitar Vassilev
Hello, Could someone advise how one should create 1 unused partition for upgrading nanobsd in myconf.nano? What variables should I put into the config file to have a such? How big it should be for 4GB card? Also what is the filesystem referred by NANO_DATASIZE variable? Thanks in advance! Dimitar

Re: nanobsd upgrade partitions

2010-05-17 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia poniedziałek, 17 maja 2010 o 10:06:05 Dimitar Vassilev napisał(a): Hello, Could someone advise how one should create 1 unused partition for upgrading nanobsd in myconf.nano? What variables should I put into the config file to have a such? # Number of code images on media (1 or 2)

Re: nanobsd upgrade partitions

2010-05-17 Thread Dimitar Vassilev
Dzienki Maciej :-) 2010/5/17 Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl: Dnia poniedziałek, 17 maja 2010 o 10:06:05 Dimitar Vassilev napisał(a): Hello, Could someone advise how one should create 1 unused partition for upgrading nanobsd in myconf.nano? What variables should I put into the config file to

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another drive, use gpart to create enough

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/12 A. Wright and...@qemg.org On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-02 Thread Christopher Key
Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Christopher Key
Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev

More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions?  Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(8) supports

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible.

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