Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:43:41 -0600 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D4C3@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <20091208202749.d3f3b697.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D44A@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20091208195424.850e8363.freebsd@edvax.de> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D498@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20091208202749.d3f3b697.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>Excuse me, you're mixing up terminology here. Let me explain: > >A SLICE is what "Windows" calls a "DOS primary partition", often just name= d a "partition". Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. Considering th= at fdisk uses "partition" interchangeably in cases with "slice", I often do= as well. I guess it can be confusing if one isn't careful with context. >I'm not sure if I understood you correctly. You won't need to create three= slices, just one slice, containin three partitions. We already have a configuration in place on our smaller 1U boxes which are = divided into three slices, one for the OS (with 2 partitions), one for swap= , and the third slice for data. The third slice is divided into two partiti= ons, one UFS and one raw. The first two slices are gmirrored, the third sli= ce is not. For consistency we want to use the same slice configuration for these large= drives. We don't *have* to do it this way but it simplifies things for our= legacy code. We're not using any gmirroring on these raid boxes of course,= and we only need one partition on the third slice (no raw partition) but o= therwise the layout will largely be the same.
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