Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:17:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstal and setting up the BSD partitions inside an FDISK 'slice'. Message-ID: <200910022217.n92MHcgm018910@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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The 'sysinstall' BSD partition-table and mount point editor appears to be
lacking in some features that are highly desirable to people building complex
configurations with the O/S spread across multiple drives. For the 'usual'
scenarios -- especially with modern high-capacity drives -- the case can be
made, fairly convincingly, for using only a small number of filesystems (i.e.,
possibly as few as 2) on a large drive. There are, however, specialized
(i.e., at least 'somewhat' esoteric :) situations where it _is_ desirable to
use a much larger number of filesystems. Situations were you need to control
the allocation of partition letters, _and_ 'where' on the slice that
partiton 'lives'. Just like being able to edit the 'mount point', without
deleting/re-creating the partition, it would be _very_ helpful to have a
function that allowed one to change _which_ partition a given chunk of
disk was named. That is, cursor to '{controller}d1s2g', say, and be able
to 'change' the final character to any of the partitions (abdefh) that are
not currently allocated any space.
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