From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 11:52: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BCF37B41B for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB8JpVs56662; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:51:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:51:31 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "David O'Brien" , Garance A Drosihn , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011208205131.A56648@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> <20011208103048.C11428@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112081911.fB8JBTW06147@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112081911.fB8JBTW06147@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :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 works on x86 but not on alpha which does not use slices. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message