Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-10-04 Thread Jason Mitchell
On Oct 4, 2018, at 3:59 PM, Rocky Hotas wrote: >> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:41 AM >> From: "Jason Mitchell" >> To: "Michael van Elst" >> Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org >> Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD > > [...] > >> I don’t think this is possible. At

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-10-04 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 4 Oct 2018 22:14:31 +0200 From:"Rocky Hotas" Message-ID: | > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 at 9:10 PM | > From: "Don NetBSD" | > I've never tinkered with moving swap out of 'b' -- but imagine it could be | > done, reliably. | | According

Re: Trimming a diskless distribution

2018-10-04 Thread Cág
Don wrote: > To date, I've been exporting an *empty* filesystem and incrementally adding > stuff to it, based on errors detected in the process of going to singleuser... > and, likewise, proceeding on to multiuser. It's always nice to see that you are not alone :) -- caóc

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-10-04 Thread Rocky Hotas
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 at 9:10 PM > From: "Don NetBSD" > To: "NetBSD Users Mailing List" > Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD [...] > I've never tinkered with moving swap out of 'b' -- but imagine it could be > done, reliably. According to some previous

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-10-04 Thread Rocky Hotas
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:41 AM > From: "Jason Mitchell" > To: "Michael van Elst" > Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org > Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD [...] > I don’t think this is possible. At least I remember reading here that > FreeBSD’s disklabel is in a

Trimming a diskless distribution

2018-10-04 Thread Don NetBSD
A question similar, in spirit, to that of Cág ("Correct way to trim the distribution?") What's a "good" way to trim the exported filesystem for a diskless system? (The goal being to eventually crunchgen a local system image and eliminate the NFS mount entirely) To date, I've been exporting an

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-10-04 Thread Don NetBSD
So, in a degenerate example, put 2 partitions on a disk that each represent an entire root filesystem TO THE OS THAT IS BOOTED. This is exactly the degenerate example I wanted to refer to. Let's consider a BSD disklabel in the first sector of a hard disk (so, without MBR) with the following

Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

2018-10-04 Thread Rocky Hotas
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 at 9:04 PM > From: "Don NetBSD" > To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org > Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD [...] Hi and sorry for the delay! > > Remember, the partitions have no knowledge of where they actually exist in a > FILESYSTEM! Yes, of