Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:56:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly Message-ID: <200607300656.k6U6udJt003335@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> <20060727202528.GA14954@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <200607282236.k6SMaRlj089446@apollo.backplane.com> <20060729141313.GA43548@hades.panopticon>
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:* Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com) wrote:
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:> felt that 8 partitions is restrictive. My main home server has 10
:> and the main DragonFly box has 11.
:>
:> There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO* have
:> four slices to play with. You can put a disklabel with 8 partitions
:> in it on each one (for 32 total). It isn't as convenient, but it does
:> work.
:About `lack' of partitions - don't forget that labels can be nested.
:Just do `bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s1e` - you'll get /dev/ad0s1ea.
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:Best regards,
: Dmitry mailto:amdmi3@mail.ru
Oh, very cute! A terrible hack if you ask me, but cute all the same!
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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