From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 16: 5:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C9837B417 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:05:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with UUCP id fB9050w65395; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:05:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20.cicely.de [10.1.1.22]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fB8NcWtx059472; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:38:32 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB8NcVW02159; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:38:31 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB8NcTZ06829; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:38:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:38:29 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Matthew Dillon , "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: <20011209003829.C6171@cicely8.cicely.de> 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> <20011208205131.A56648@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011208205131.A56648@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 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 08:51:31PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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. Vinum works fine on i386 and alpha. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message