From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 14:02:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D2816A4DF for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:02:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD0543D45 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:02:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 41A56348FA; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:02:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id E42764AC28; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:02:13 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17612.48101.830405.56113@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:02:13 -0400 To: Dmitry Marakasov In-Reply-To: <20060729141313.GA43548@hades.panopticon> 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> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:02:13 -0000 >>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Marakasov writes: Dmitry> * Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com) wrote: >> 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. Dmitry> About `lack' of partitions - don't forget that labels can be Dmitry> nested. Just do `bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s1e` - you'll get Dmitry> /dev/ad0s1ea. Don't also forget that gpt(8) exists and seems to provide for large numbers of partitions. It even seems to be compiled into GENERIC by default. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================