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Date:      Sun, 8 Jul 2018 03:28:30 +0530
From:      Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR
Message-ID:  <0753eec0-674f-842f-2dae-c8405b004dc1@yandex.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <98201d37-2d65-34c6-969e-c9649f1a3ab1@yandex.com> <f57a5540-9736-53bf-5312-166a1b2e23b0@yandex.com> <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On 07/08/18 03:16, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 02:20:56 +0530
> Manish Jain wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I made a request for FreeBSD UFS filesystem to the freebsd-fs list.
>> Just for opinions on this list, I am forwarding that request
>> underneath.
>>
>> Tx
>> Manish Jain
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR
>> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:29:55 +0530
>> From: Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com>
>> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am a longtime user of FreeBSD, which now serves as my only OS.
>>
>> There is one request I wished to make for FreeBSD filesystems. While
>> UFS implementation under GPT is unnested just as Ext2, the MBR
>> implementation of UFS continues to piggyback on an unnecessary nest
>> (in a BSD slice).
>>
>> Can it not be considered as an alternative to provide a UFS partition
>> (unnested) under MBR too ?
> 
> You can put UFS on an MBR partition if you want to.

How ? Can you give me the gpart command for that ? Remember, the command 
must put the UFS partition directly into the MBR. Not first into a BSD nest.

Tx
MJ




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