Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 00:04:37 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR Message-ID: <20180708000437.2dd95933@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <0753eec0-674f-842f-2dae-c8405b004dc1@yandex.com> References: <98201d37-2d65-34c6-969e-c9649f1a3ab1@yandex.com> <f57a5540-9736-53bf-5312-166a1b2e23b0@yandex.com> <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com> <0753eec0-674f-842f-2dae-c8405b004dc1@yandex.com>
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 03:28:30 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: > On 07/08/18 03:16, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 02:20:56 +0530 > > Manish Jain wrote: > >> 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). > > 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. If you create an MBR partition you can run newfs on it - I done this for data partitions. Whether or not you can make that a bootable partition I don't know, I've never tried. I don't think there's any intrinsic reason why it can't be done, it's a matter of whether it's supported by a tool. If you just want to put a single FreeBSD install on a disk without the slice you can use a "dangerously dedicated" install, the traditional unix install.
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