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.
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
> > > >
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
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
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
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
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".
:-)
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
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