Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 rounded down to 20. This is where this limit comes from - the size of the sector. ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
On 12/1/10, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/11/2010 23:29, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 11/30/10, David DEMELIERdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/30 Paul B Maholone...@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 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 offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10m 164.2BSD0 0 b: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 d: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 e: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 f: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 g: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 h: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 i: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 j: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 k: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 c: 20479730unused0 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 gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md2s1 mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md0s1 gpart: entries '26': Invalid argument mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 8 md0s1 md0s1 created Looks like max number is 20, up to md2s1t. ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
2010/12/1 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 12/1/10, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/11/2010 23:29, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 11/30/10, David DEMELIERdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/30 Paul B Maholone...@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 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 gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md2s1 mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md0s1 gpart: entries '26': Invalid argument mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 8 md0s1 md0s1 created Looks like max number is 20, up to md2s1t. Yes I saw that it was only 20 max, so how to get 26 partitions using bsdlabel ? :-) Cheers, -- 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
On 12/1/10, David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/1 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 12/1/10, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/11/2010 23:29, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 11/30/10, David DEMELIERdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/30 Paul B Maholone...@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 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 offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10m 164.2BSD0 0 b: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 d: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 e: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 f: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 g: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 h: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 i: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 j: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 k: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 c: 20479730unused0 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 gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md2s1 mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md0s1 gpart: entries '26': Invalid argument mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 8 md0s1 md0s1 created Looks like max number is 20, up to md2s1t. Yes I saw that it was only 20 max, so how to get 26 partitions using bsdlabel ? :-) It is hardcoded. Not my code. ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 past 50 lines to see a one-line reply :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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 Is this a theoretical exercise as I cant see why you would need that many file systems? Why not just use a EFI layout then you can have 128 file sytems? ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 bit ridiculous having to scroll past 50 lines to see a one-line reply :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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 Is this a theoretical exercise as I cant see why you would need that many file systems? Why not just use a EFI layout then you can have 128 file sytems? ___ 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 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 wanted to try partitionning a disk using only gpart and not fdisk/bsdlabel at all so to check if what announced is real but it seems not :-). Kind regards, -- 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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, ... ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 supports more that 8 ufs partitions via gpart(8). ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 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). » 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 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 offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10m 164.2BSD0 0 b: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 d: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 e: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 f: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 g: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 h: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 i: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 j: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 k: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 c: 20479730unused0 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. Cheers, -- 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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 offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10m 164.2BSD0 0 b: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 d: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 e: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 f: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 g: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 h: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 i: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 j: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 k: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 c: 20479730unused0 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. ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
On 11/30/10, David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 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 offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10m 164.2BSD0 0 b: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 d: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 e: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 f: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 g: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 h: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 i: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 j: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 k: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 c: 20479730unused0 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 gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md2s1 ___ 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
2010/11/30 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 11/30/10, David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 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 gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md2s1 Thank you, I didn't see this little part of gpart(8). -- 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
Re: 8 partitions maximum
On 30/11/2010 23:29, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 11/30/10, David DEMELIERdemelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/30 Paul B Maholone...@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 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 offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10m 164.2BSD0 0 b: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 d: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 e: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 f: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 g: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 h: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 i: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 j: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 k: 10m *4.2BSD0 0 c: 20479730unused0 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 gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md2s1 mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 26 md0s1 gpart: entries '26': Invalid argument mark...@melon ~ $ sudo gpart create -s BSD -n 8 md0s1 md0s1 created ___ 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
