From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 16:57:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8FD37B420 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20011209005723.LNHD5859.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org> for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:57:23 +0000 Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB90vWs28169 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019053808; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bernd Walter Cc: Wilko Bulte , 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) In-Reply-To: <20011209003829.C6171@cicely8.cicely.de> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 16:57:31 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011209005732.019053808@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Bernd Walter wrote: > 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. Yes, but vinum brings its own problems. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message