Re: New disklable doesn't keep old partitions if requested

2009-07-05 Thread Brynet
Theo de Raadt wrote: Or 'n' Thank you. There is a reason why the installer disklabel and fdisk commands both have a 'M' command in them, to show the manual page. I agree, that is a handy shortcut. :-) I am not being sarcastic. B I truly am sick of having my time wasted. Many people get

Re: New disklable doesn't keep old partitions if requested

2009-07-05 Thread Matthew Clarke
partition as before and skip the 'm' steps if you want. Now you can't just type 'q' and do this, but needs to do 'm' for each partitions and keep the same size, offset, etc the same and provide then the mount point, then save, quit and keep going. If there is a way to skip these additional

Re: New disklable doesn't keep old partitions if requested

2009-07-05 Thread Brynet
Hi Daniel, It appears as if you're still confused. Specifiy the mount points within disklabel using 'm' or 'n' has been standard proceedure for some time. Some users skipped this and waited for the confirmation prompts after quiting disklabel. This was deemed redundant, users can already

Re: New disklable doesn't keep old partitions if requested

2009-07-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
(command 'a') or modifying (command 'm') your partitions, or you could just name the mount points for existing partitions without otherwise those partitions (command 'n'). I see that now. After you finished the disk label editor, the old installer would then prompt you to name your mount points

Re: New disklable doesn't keep old partitions if requested

2009-07-05 Thread Miod Vallat
This whole thread is actually one more proof that nobody ever reads the installation notes (INSTALL.*). Miod

dealing with ext2fs partitions

2009-05-15 Thread Chuck Robey
Need to confirm some details about creating ext2fs partitions. Since I can't mount any part of my FreeBSD disk from OpenBSD, I need a filesystem on my OpenBSD disk that FreeBSD can read, and the only one I'm sure about here is the ext2fs fs. So, I need to take the currently created FFS partition

Too many partitions?l

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Guenther
cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 16 partitions: #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 1253070 42973875 4.2BSD 2048 163841 b: 1253070 44226945swap

Re: Too many partitions?l

2009-04-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
, it becomes a real label for the next boot, as described above. New MBR partitions will not be noticed. After adding partition 'n' I can mount and use my data drive fine. My only guess was that I had too many partitions, but the FAQ says up to 'p') which is greater than 'n' so that's not it. So any

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-16 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:46:35PM +0100, Jon Sj?stedt wrote: I want a mounting point in the root file system to be mounted with a directory found inside a device that is not yet mounted. I also want this transparent to samba and NFS (I'll use both). so: - you have a device, /dev/wd0d. -

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-16 Thread Jon Sjöstedt
example above) 'dataa' and 'datab' are on the same partition, and, from mount(8): For disk partitions, the special device must correspond to a partition registered in the disklabel(5)., so no deal. I'm still not understanding what you want or what the problem is. This appears to me

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-16 Thread Ariane van der Steldt
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:10:23AM +0100, Jon Sj?stedt wrote: Hello all patient! Another clarification attempt :) I have a drive. Lets call it wd0. It has one partition wd0d that fills up the whole drive. The root of wd0d has three directories (and no other files) music, pictures and others.

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-16 Thread uw
partition, and, from mount(8): For disk partitions, the special device must correspond to a partition registered in the disklabel(5)., so no deal. I'm still not understanding what you want or what the problem is. This appears to me to be a perfectly ordinary mounting situation. If you

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-16 Thread Peter Hessler
How do you think file systems are mounted on top of / ? On 2009 Jan 16 (Fri) at 11:10:23 +0100 (+0100), Jon Sjvstedt wrote: :I still want the same structure as before, but i dont want to mount wd1d :in a directory that is inside wd0d. -- Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-16 Thread Jon Sjöstedt
If you wish to contribute there are clarifications for my somewhat unclear initial post. If you have not seen them, read the digest. How do you think file systems are mounted on top of / ? On 2009 Jan 16 (Fri) at 11:10:23 +0100 (+0100), Jon Sjvstedt wrote: :I still want the same structure as

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Jon Sjvstedt d00...@dtek.chalmers.se wrote: I still want the same structure as before, but i dont want to mount wd1d in a directory that is inside wd0d. If mount would accept something like mount /bananas/pictures /dev/wd0d/pictures mount /bananas/others

Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-15 Thread Jon Sjöstedt
Hello all! I have an issue with mount. The problem is that i would like to create a directory with subdirs. On the subdirs I would mount directories of not yet mounted disks. Example mount /stuff/data1 /wd0d/dataa mount /stuff/data2 /wd0d/datab mount /stuff/data3 /wd1d mount /stuff/data4

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-15 Thread Ariane van der Steldt
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:30:09PM +0100, Jon Sj?stedt wrote: I have an issue with mount. The problem is that i would like to create a directory with subdirs. On the subdirs I would mount directories of not yet mounted disks. Example mount /stuff/data1 /wd0d/dataa mount /stuff/data2

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-15 Thread Jon Sjöstedt
the device of the mounting, not the mounting point. However, it seems to me that (from your example above) 'dataa' and 'datab' are on the same partition, and, from mount(8): For disk partitions, the special device must correspond to a partition registered in the disklabel(5)., so no deal

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-15 Thread Paul M
to work, I only have to change the device of the mounting, not the mounting point. However, it seems to me that (from your example above) 'dataa' and 'datab' are on the same partition, and, from mount(8): For disk partitions, the special device must correspond to a partition registered

Olivebsd liveCD and using swap partitions

2008-04-01 Thread Mark Gary
I hope this question is relevant here in this group. I've just downloaded the Olivebsd CD, to try it out on my Laptop. I've got a 500Mb free partition doing nothing. Can that be utilised as a swap partition to be used when the CD is running, or is it possible to create a swap file on a FAT32

Re: Olivebsd liveCD and using swap partitions

2008-04-01 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:06:26 +0100, Mark Gary wrote I hope this question is relevant here in this group. I've just downloaded the Olivebsd CD, to try it out on my Laptop. I've got a 500Mb free partition doing nothing. Can that be utilised as a swap partition to be used when the CD is running,

Re: Olivebsd liveCD and using swap partitions

2008-04-01 Thread B A
01.04.08, 17:06, Mark Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I hope this question is relevant here in this group. I've just downloaded the Olivebsd CD, to try it out on my Laptop. I've got a 500Mb free partition doing nothing. Can that be utilised as a swap partition to be used when the CD is running,

creating FAT32 partitions?

2008-03-31 Thread Fred Snurd
I apologize for the newbie question, but how is one supposed to add a FAT32 partition? The following shows where I have verified the partitioning of a USB flash drive containing two partitions through fdisk. One for OpenBSD (type A6) the rest FAT32. Yet when entering the disklabel, I am

Re: creating FAT32 partitions?

2008-03-31 Thread Nick Holland
Fred Snurd wrote: I apologize for the newbie question, the lack of line wraps is mighty annoying, too. but how is one supposed to add a FAT32 partition? The following shows where I have verified the partitioning of a USB flash drive containing two partitions through fdisk. One

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi again, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 02:38:08 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: I just installed OpenBSD on a i386 from cd41.iso as described in the FAQ, chapter 4. When I restart the system from the CD all OpenBSD partitions show up properly and I can chroot into /mnt after I mounted them

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 02:38:08 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: I just installed OpenBSD on a i386 from cd41.iso as described in the FAQ, chapter 4. When I restart the system from the CD all OpenBSD partitions show up properly and I can chroot into /mnt after I mounted them. However

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi again, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 02:38:08 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: I just installed OpenBSD on a i386 from cd41.iso as described in the FAQ, chapter 4. When I restart the system from the CD all OpenBSD partitions show up properly and I can chroot into /mnt

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread michael hamerski
is it a recent grub? if you're reading grub source I will assume you know more about it than I do, but am writing this on a box which boots debian/openbsd/xp without problems, from grub installed circa 6 months ago. I certainly did not dd any sectors around. I can send you my grub conf when I

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
I am writing this from a dual-boot system with linux only and I never had your problem. 2007/10/29, michael hamerski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: is it a recent grub? if you're reading grub source I will assume you know more about it than I do, but am writing this on a box which boots debian/openbsd/xp

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
PROTECTED]: On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grub root (hd1,^I Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Daugherity
On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grub root (hd1,^I Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is ext2fs

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
). This is not supported. Reallocated your fdisk partitions so the OpenBSD partition is a primary partition and reinstall (you may have to resize your extended partition, ID=5, to make room). Those @#$! extended partitions! It's really time for me to get rid of that kind of programming style. I

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
(hdb6). This is not supported. Reallocated your fdisk partitions so the OpenBSD partition is a primary partition and reinstall (you may have to resize your extended partition, ID=5, to make room). Those @#$! extended partitions! It's really time for me to get rid of that kind

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
language, and you have it as an extended partition (hdb6). This is not supported. [...] Moving partitions around on the machine described above will take some time but I will try it in any case and I will report. I shuffled the OpenBSD partition to the primary section in front and --- it works

First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-28 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, I just installed OpenBSD on a i386 from cd41.iso as described in the FAQ, chapter 4. When I restart the system from the CD all OpenBSD partitions show up properly and I can chroot into /mnt after I mounted them. However, Grub refuses to recognize any of the OpenBSD partitions. A Linux

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-04 Thread Julian Leyh
for partitions, somehow it causes problems. But if you use vnd1 or a higher number, it should just work. Julian -- If you don't remember something, it never existed... If you aren't remembered, you never existed... I don't quite understand what love is like... But if there was someone who liked me, I'd

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-04 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/4/07, Julian Leyh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, you can't use vnd0 for partitions, somehow it causes problems. But if you use vnd1 or a higher number, it should just work. About the only reason I could see for that being the case is that the release(8) process is hard-coded to use vnd0

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
, you can't use vnd0 for partitions, somehow it causes problems. But if you use vnd1 or a higher number, it should just work. uh, pretty sure that's not the case. this hogwash about encrypted partitions is getting old: # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on ... /dev

Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-03 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, How can I encrypt a whole partition with OpenBSD 4.1 or 4.2-current?? I only info about encrypt image files and not partitions many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-03 Thread Guillaume Dualé
and not partitions many thanks.

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-03 Thread carlopmart
files and not partitions many thanks. In this howto only explains howto encrypt sparse files and not partitions .. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-03 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
about encrypt image files and not partitions many thanks. In this howto only explains howto encrypt sparse files and not partitions .. the technique in the article does not only apply to sparse files. have an encrypted /var on some of my webservers and the procedure is identical

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-03 Thread carlopmart
or 4.2-current?? I only info about encrypt image files and not partitions many thanks. In this howto only explains howto encrypt sparse files and not partitions .. the technique in the article does not only apply to sparse files. have an encrypted /var on some of my webservers

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/3/07, carlopmart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks jacob, but I have received an email from openbsd's developer that it isn't possible to encrypt partitions or disks ... only image files created by dd command ... The developer of whom you speak may be slightly misinformed, or just hasn't

msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
On a machine that dual-boots both Windows 2000 and OpenBSD 4.0, I have a second data hard drive (wd1) with two primary partitions, FAT32L, which were created by Windows 2000. Mount fails because they do not have OBSD disklabels... Device not configured. # disklabel wd1 ...warns

Re: msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 02:40 PM 10/3/2007 -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote: On a machine that dual-boots both Windows 2000 and OpenBSD 4.0, I have a second data hard drive (wd1) with two primary partitions, FAT32L, which were created by Windows 2000. Mount fails because they do not have OBSD disklabels... Device

Re: msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:40:33PM -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote: On a machine that dual-boots both Windows 2000 and OpenBSD 4.0, I have a second data hard drive (wd1) with two primary partitions, FAT32L, which were created by Windows 2000. Mount fails because they do not have OBSD

Re: msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 02:40 PM 10/3/2007 -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote: On a machine that dual-boots both Windows 2000 and OpenBSD 4.0, I have a second data hard drive (wd1) with two primary partitions, FAT32L, which were created by Windows 2000. Mount fails because they do not have OBSD

Re: msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
Joachim Schipper wrote: You cannot, and should not try to. The automatically constructed disklabel is fine, mount /dev/wd1i or /dev/wd1j. Thanks, Joachim... worked perfectly! -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ .

Samba-3.0.25a and ext2-partitions

2007-08-12 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
Hello! This is a very odd problem and I have not found any answers on the net. Hope some one can give a hint. OpenBSD-machine (4.1-current some how) with Samba-3.0.25a serving 3 shares: NAS,MP3 and OpenBSD. NAS and MP3 are ext2fs-paritions on the disk, OpenBSD is ffs-partition. Setup for those

Re: Samba-3.0.25a and ext2-partitions

2007-08-12 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:20:17PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: Hello! This is a very odd problem and I have not found any answers on the net. Hope some one can give a hint. OpenBSD-machine (4.1-current some how) with Samba-3.0.25a serving 3 shares: NAS,MP3 and OpenBSD. NAS and MP3

Re: Samba-3.0.25a and ext2-partitions

2007-08-12 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Via SAMBA, I suppose (you're also doing NFS, I see)? Samba has a silly amount of options, most of them dictated by the idiocy^H^Hsyncracies of Microsoft networking. However, Unix file permissions are not always irrelevant and possibly worth checking.

Re: Samba-3.0.25a and ext2-partitions

2007-08-12 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
Yes, mounting SMB-share. smb-log yields NT_NO_SUCH_FILE as soon as I try to 'ls' this mounted share. The strange thing is what everything worked fine with older Samba (I think it was older 3.x). I have not changed smb.conf for a while. On 12 aug 2007, at 21.44, Joachim Schipper wrote:

Re: External 250Gb USB Disk with three FAT32 partitions, device not configured

2007-02-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
dmesg output of the disk that runs correctly: umass0 at uhub2 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: Cypress Semiconductor USB2.0 Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: ST315323, A, SCSI0 0/direct fixed sd0: 14652MB, 14652

Re: External 250Gb USB Disk with three FAT32 partitions, device not configured

2007-02-06 Thread Angel Sancho
Hi, thanks for your answer Yes, I'm running GENERIC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/angel $ uname -a OpenBSD notdefined 3.9 GENERIC#617 i386 Really, I don't know why scsibus isn't attaching, can I attach it manually without rebuild the kernel? 2007/2/6, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dmesg

External 250Gb USB Disk with three FAT32 partitions, device not configured

2007-02-05 Thread Angel Sancho
Hi, first, sorry for my poor english.. I have a 250Gb external usb disk with three FAT32 partitions (two of 100Gb and an other of 50Gb), formatted on Windows. In addition I have an external usb box for IDE hdd's too with a 15Gb disk formatted on OpenBSD with runs correctly, in this case, it's

Mounting FreeBSD partitions on OpenBSD

2007-01-30 Thread roger
I'm trying to mount my FreeBSD partitions in OpenBSD. OpenBSD has no problem finding, reading and writing to the root partition for FreeBSD but doesn't see the other partitions(/home, /usr, /var). I know I have to manually edit the disklabel to add those partitions. My problem

Re: Mounting FreeBSD partitions on OpenBSD

2007-01-30 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount my FreeBSD partitions in OpenBSD. OpenBSD has no problem finding, reading and writing to the root partition for FreeBSD but doesn't see the other partitions(/home, /usr, /var). I know I have to manually edit the disklabel

raid and separate partitions

2007-01-06 Thread Tautvydas
Hey list, I have stupid question - I have one raid device, so I want to make separate /var/www partition, only for web server. At first it looks ok: # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/raid0a4.9G 37.4M4.6G 1%/ /dev/raid0b9.8G1.2G

Re: raid and separate partitions

2007-01-06 Thread Marco S Hyman
So, question is - how is it possible? It looks like something I'm missing. I don't know how, but it looks like all www date is written Order is important. It looks like you mounted /var/www before /var in which case /var/www is hidden. /etc/fstab must be in the order that you want

Re: raid and separate partitions

2007-01-06 Thread Tautvydas
,nosuid 1 2 Yes, I know that. I've tried at first to mount /var and then mount other /var partitions. But the reason why I've changed that (if I remember correctly) was that the system was unable to mount /var/xxx (busy or smth.). I'll try to change that back. -- Hi, I'm a .signature virus

Re: raid and separate partitions

2007-01-06 Thread Tautvydas
2 /dev/wd0h /var/wwwffsrw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 Yes, I know that. I've tried at first to mount /var and then mount other /var partitions. But the reason why I've changed that (if I remember correctly) was that the system was unable to mount /var/xxx (busy or smth.). I'll try

trouble with extended partitions in latest snapshot

2006-09-15 Thread Adi
latest snapshot doesn't see the last two partitions on my disk. neither 3.9, linux or freebsd have any problem with that. Does anyone know what's going on ? Thanks a lot. (see below the output from disklabel -d, as seen on the snapshot from September 1st and on 3.9

Re: trouble with extended partitions in latest snapshot

2006-09-15 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Adi wrote: latest snapshot doesn't see the last two partitions on my disk. neither 3.9, linux or freebsd have any problem with that. Does anyone know what's going on ? Can you try to revert sys/arch/i386/i386/disksubr.c to rev 1.53 and see if the problem goes away

Re: trouble with extended partitions in latest snapshot

2006-09-15 Thread Adi
that was supposed to go to the list, sorry. Adi On 9/15/06, Adi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you try to revert sys/arch/i386/i386/disksubr.c to rev 1.53 and see if the problem goes away? yes, that fixes it. Adi

Re: Partitions

2006-07-02 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:39:28PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: Yes, but /etc/rc doesn't: # prune quickly with one rm, then use find to clean up /tmp/[lq]* # (not needed with mfs /tmp, but doesn't hurt there...) (cd /tmp rm -rf [a-km-pr-zA-Z]* find . ! -name . ! -name lost+found !

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Lars Hansson
On Friday 30 June 2006 20:45, Craig Skinner wrote: I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. /var/tmp is not wiped at boot. --- Lars Hansson

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Stefan Olsson
From: Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 30 June 2006 20:45, Craig Skinner wrote: I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. /var/tmp is not wiped at boot. -No, but /tmp is and if you symlink

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 05:32:27PM +0100, Stefan Olsson wrote: From: Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 30 June 2006 20:45, Craig Skinner wrote: I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway.

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:45:15PM +0100, Craig Skinner wrote: | On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:00:12PM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote: | | I never understood why putting /tmp on its own partition is good when nobody | notices /var/tmp. In addition to /tmp I always put /var/tmp on its own |

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:40:18PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: | I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: | nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. Not only at boot, see daily(8) : - Removes scratch and junk files from /tmp and

Re: Partitions

2006-06-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Brahy Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:00 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: [misc] Partitions At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions ( http://archives.neohapsis.com

Re: Partitions

2006-06-30 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi, So am I going overboard? or am I missing any good partions. I never understood why putting /tmp on its own partition is good when nobody notices /var/tmp. In addition to /tmp I always put /var/tmp on its own partition too, so that I can mount it with nodev,noexec,nosuid. I also try to

Re: Partitions

2006-06-30 Thread Henning Brauer
* Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-30 03:33]: yes, I'd say you are going a bit overboard. very slightly, if at all. nor do I see any real-life benefit to a /usr/local partition. I do, a lot. prevent 3rd party crap shit from overflowing /usr. and, that way, you can even mount /usr RO unless

Re: Partitions

2006-06-30 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:00:12PM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote: I never understood why putting /tmp on its own partition is good when nobody notices /var/tmp. In addition to /tmp I always put /var/tmp on its own partition too, so that I can mount it with nodev,noexec,nosuid. I always

Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread John Brahy
At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions ( http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-01/1654.html) now I can't have enough partitions In my official OpenBSD CD sleeve it says to create these partitions: / swap /tmp /var /usr /home and over time I have learned

Re: Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:00 PM, John Brahy wrote: At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions ( http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-01/1654.html) now I can't have enough partitions The main advantage of partitions is that you can isolate file systems

Re: Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
it should not only have it's own partition, but you should move it to another disk (and even controller). Etc., etc... The more experienced I get, the better I am at choosing what to partition seperately, and how big to make the partitions. Some of the best advice is to partition what you think you'll

Re: Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions ( http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-01/1654.ht ml) now I can't have enough partitions An example of a problem you can run into with overpartioning is being too carve-happy. You've got

Re: Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:00:17PM -0700, John Brahy wrote: At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions ( http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-01/1654.html) now I can't have enough partitions In my official OpenBSD CD sleeve it says to create

Re: Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Holland
John Brahy wrote: ... and over time I have learned to appreciate these, but lately I have been creating more partitions /usr/src /usr/obj are two of the ones that are suggested when rebuilding my system and I definitely like the speed of doing a newfs to /usr/obj Certainly handy. On the other

making proper backups of encrypted partitions

2006-06-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
up until now i've abstained from having backups for the encrypted directories and partitions on my machines. since my attachment to this data has grown as of late, i would like to know if there are any gotchas for backing up encrypted data. the concern i have is that if a lot of changes are made

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-03-02 Thread Jeff Nelson
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:37:12PM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote: Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Just curious, but why would want /etc on a separate partition? Have a great

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-28 Thread Nickolay A Burkov
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:37:12 +0100 Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Have a nice day Michael -- Michael Schmidt MIRRORS:

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Schmidt
Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Monday, February 27, Michael Schmidt wrote: I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Where is the information located that tells it how/where to mount the /etc partition from? Okay,

/etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Schmidt
Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Have a nice day Michael -- Michael Schmidt MIRRORS: DJGPP ftp://ftp.fh-koblenz.de/pub/DJGPP/ Ghostscript

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:37:12PM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote: Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Because init wants to start a shell on /etc/rc, and mount -a ... wants

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Because it is the directory that contains the lists first shell script which must be run, /etc/rc. Same reason that /sbin cannot be a different mount point, because then you cannot get at

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Dustin Lundquist
Michael Schmidt wrote: I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? The rc scripts need to be able to read /etc/fstab to know what filesystems besides / to mount. Dustin Lundquist

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Tim Donahue
Speaking from experience, I put /etc on a separate partition once, only took 2 hours to recover it but it was a lesson well learned... There are several file located in the /etc/ directory that need to be immediately available upon boot. These include /etc/fstab and /etc/rc*. Tim Donahue On

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Monday, February 27, Michael Schmidt wrote: version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Where is the information located that tells it how/where to mount the /etc partition from? --Toby.

Re: users filling partitions crashing system

2006-02-07 Thread MikeyG
. I just tried filling /tmp and the system and it's running fine. And I've seen other partitions fill up with no problems before. I've put in place scripts to log as much info as possible and see what happens. If it hasn't recurred by tonight I'll attempt to reproduce the same conditions

Re: users filling partitions crashing system

2006-02-07 Thread Ray Lai
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:00:41AM +, MikeyG wrote: Is there any way to direct cores to be saved somewhere else? ... Feb 6 10:36:36 boxname /bsd: WARNING: / was not properly unmounted Feb 6 10:37:37 boxname savecore: reboot after panic: trap type 6, code=2, pc=d033737c Feb 6 10:37:37

users filling partitions crashing system

2006-02-06 Thread MikeyG
quotas set on the /home partition and everywhere else besides /tmp that the users could be putting data, and there is of course the 5% of space reserved on all partitions. Everything divided into separate partitions as recommended. /tmp is virtually unused most of the time so I can't figure out

Re: users filling partitions crashing system

2006-02-06 Thread Bryan Irvine
When the system comes back up everything appears to be fine, /tmp having been emptied by rc. There seems to be nothing logged to tell me what might have happened so I'm just left scratching my head. After a crash boot into single user and see what's in /tmp.

Re: users filling partitions crashing system

2006-02-06 Thread Nick Holland
MikeyG wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a recurring problem whereby a users process is causing the system to crash by (I believe) filling up the /tmp partition. Twice this week this has happened shortly after I have renice-d a resource hungry bittorrent download I've seen a user running. I question

Re: users filling partitions crashing system

2006-02-06 Thread knitti
On 2/6/06, MikeyG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing a recurring problem whereby a users process is causing the system to crash by (I believe) filling up the /tmp partition. I have several boxes which all have /tmp (and /var/log) on a mfs, which is 105% after some time. These boxes admittedly

Re: disklabel and ext3 partitions on amd64

2005-12-20 Thread steven mestdagh
') partitions in place. maybe someone can comment on this? -- steven Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

Re: disklabel and ext3 partitions on amd64

2005-12-19 Thread Simon Morgan
On 18/12/05, steven mestdagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the same happening on 3.8-release vs. 3.8-current on i386 for systems with foreign filesystems. Not sure why. Think it could be a bug?

Re: disklabel and ext3 partitions on amd64

2005-12-18 Thread steven mestdagh
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:40:29PM +, Simon Morgan wrote: I'm currently running OpenBSD/i386 3.8 on an AMD64 machine and just went to install the latest AMD64 snapshot. The hard drive I'm installing to has a number of ext3 partitions contained in an extended partition. When I installed

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