Re: Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
Marek Kozlowski wrote: > *Normally* only one fdisk partition. How about *abnormally*? I mean: > is it technically possible to place (and use!) more than one OpenBSD > partition for a drive? No.

Re: Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:27:25PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2022/01/06 09:56, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 11:11:30AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > You can create more than one "fdisk partition" but there's not much > > > >

Re: Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:27:25PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2022/01/06 09:56, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 11:11:30AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > You can create more than one "fdisk partition" but there's not much > > > point in doing so. It doesn't give

Re: Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022/01/06 09:56, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 11:11:30AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > You can create more than one "fdisk partition" but there's not much > > point in doing so. It doesn't give you any extra "disklabel partitions". > > There is a niche use case for

Re: Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 11:11:30AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > You can create more than one "fdisk partition" but there's not much > point in doing so. It doesn't give you any extra "disklabel partitions". There is a niche use case for multiple OpenBSD MBR partitions, though: Imagine a

Re: Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 11:57:06AM +0100, Marek Kozlowski wrote: > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html says: > > *Normally*, only one OpenBSD fdisk partition will be placed on a disk and > that partition will then be subdivided into disklabel partitions. > > The fs naming scheme suggests that

Re: Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-01-06, Marek Kozlowski wrote: > *Normally*, only one OpenBSD fdisk partition will be placed on a disk > and that partition will then be subdivided into disklabel partitions. The disklabel and device nodes (/dev/sd0a etc) relate to the entire disk, not just the OpenBSD "fdisk partition".

Can OpenBSD use more than one fdisk partition?

2022-01-06 Thread Marek Kozlowski
:-) https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html says: *Normally*, only one OpenBSD fdisk partition will be placed on a disk and that partition will then be subdivided into disklabel partitions. The fs naming scheme suggests that only one OpenBSD partition for a drive is allowed. I'd really