Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:11:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <200112081911.fB8JBTW06147@apollo.backplane.com> References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <p05101006b83737546907@[128.113.24.47]> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> <20011208103048.C11428@dragon.nuxi.com>
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:On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:49:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> We do not have enough partition id's to make a separate
:> /usr/local.
:
:Has anyone considered raising the max number of partitions from 8 to 16
:as OpenBSD did years ago?
Oh, by the way... there is actually a way you can bump up the number
of partitions. What you do is split the disk up into multiple slices.
We have 4, after all. You can then disklabel each one.
This is apollo.backplane.com:
apollo:/usr/src/release/sysinstall# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 127023 56412 60450 48% /
/dev/da0s1d 12862777 4386316 7447439 37% /FreeBSD
/dev/da0s1e 508143 212588 254904 45% /var
/dev/da0s1f 508143 120685 346807 26% /var/tmp
/dev/da0s1g 4065262 751379 2988663 20% /usr
/dev/da0s1h 4065262 1702069 2037973 46% /home
/dev/da0s2a 127023 44209 72653 38% /altroot
/dev/da0s2d 2032623 782315 1087699 42% /archive
/dev/da0s2e 3048942 1853940 951087 66% /u1
/dev/da0s2f 4065262 1218095 2521947 33% /images
/dev/da0s2g 4065262 301348 3438694 8% /cvs
/dev/da0s2h 9813819 1079646 7949068 12% /usr/obj
/dev/da0s3d 23871066 19009252 2952130 87% /backup1
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
10.0.0.2:/samba/htdocs 32817052 7715764 22475924 26% /home/mike/share/backplane
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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