From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 11:45:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3356C37B4C5 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:57559 "HELO ertr1013.student.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:45:13 +0100 Received: (qmail 2990 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Nov 2000 19:44:54 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:44:54 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Stijn Hoop Cc: FreeBSD , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <20001120204454.A2965@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , FreeBSD , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@freebsd.org References: <200011201332.eAKDWTB68389@cwsys.cwsent.com> <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> <20001120170356.C74393@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001120170356.C74393@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>; from stijn@win.tue.nl on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:03:56PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:03:56PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > I'd like to see FreeBSD do the same as Linux on the i386 - use only > the partition table, along with extended partitions. Do away with disklabel > *on that platform*. This would be a bad idea IMNSHO. Remember that you can only have 4 primary partitions and if if you have multiple OS's you quickly start to run out of them. Personally I like the fact that I can have several BSD partitions inside one slice (DOS partition). DOS partitions are a fairly scarce resource, so we shouldn't use more of them than necessary. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message