Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: >> >>> # DeviceMountpoint FStype OptionsDumpPass# >>> /dev/da0s1b none

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: > > > # DeviceMountpoint FStype OptionsDumpPass# > > /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 > > /dev/da0s1a /

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:58:18 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Why create so many partitions? You can use slices to your benefit and > you wouldn't use up your allocatable partitions on the disk's MBR. The point is that I wasn't given the chance to create any slices. Regards Chris __

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: > # DeviceMountpoint FStype OptionsDumpPass# > /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 > /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 ^^ Where did yo

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:53:20 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech definition > but the traditional definition, "to divide") filesystems such that if > one person fills up "/", it won't cause a program that needs to write to > "/var" or "/

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:54:40 -0900 Jeff Mohler wrote: One polite request: Would you please quote properly? I know this is not the usenet, but quoting serves a purpose and should make reading you question/comment easier. > If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we > on

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:54:40AM -0900, Jeff Mohler wrote: > Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one > spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance > issue..but..its one spindle. Primarily for management and backup/restore convenience. You can bre

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:07:49PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Garrett Cooper writes: > > > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech > > definition but the traditional definition, "to divide") filesystems > > such that if one person fills up "/", it won't cause a pr

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Huff
Garrett Cooper writes: > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech > definition but the traditional definition, "to divide") > filesystems such that if one person fills up "/", it won't cause > a program that needs to write to "/var" or "/tmp" problems, which > in the

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 21/01/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Mohler wrote: > On 1/21/07, Christian Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> problem is that I can't allocate another partition One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech definition but the traditional defin

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Baer wrote: > Hi folkes! > > Is there any way to do this with FreeBSD? > > Background: > > I have to admit, that I have never actually done or even tried this with > any OS whatsoever. I am running a two drive system with two mirrors on >

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff Mohler wrote: > If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we > only have 10, 20, or 40Mb RLL. or slightly larger ESDI drives from > back in the day..im willing to learn. 1. if you only have one file system and something corrupts it, it's all gone. Some people even u

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Mohler wrote: > Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one > spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance > issue..but..its one spindle. > > / works. > > ? > > If there is a fundamental reason why we

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Jeff Mohler
Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance issue..but..its one spindle. / works. ? If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we only have 10, 20, or 40Mb RLL. or slightly larger E

more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Baer
Hi folkes! Is there any way to do this with FreeBSD? Background: I have to admit, that I have never actually done or even tried this with any OS whatsoever. I am running a two drive system with two mirrors on it. Because I wanted a lot of room for /usr while /usr/home ist mounted on a different