Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:51:30 +1000 From: Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au> To: FreeBSD <freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <20001121075130.C30239@atlas.bit.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com>; from freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:50AM -0600 References: <200011201332.eAKDWTB68389@cwsys.cwsent.com> <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com>
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FreeBSD wrote: > The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ... > disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't. /dev/ad0s1a 1016303 48960 886039 5% / /dev/ad0s1g 1016303 111742 823257 12% /home /dev/ad0s1d 3175478 1 2921439 0% /storage /dev/ad0s1h 2032623 763713 1106301 41% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 508143 31314 436178 7% /var /dev/ad0s1f 127023 4726 112136 4% /var/log Mind you, I recall having up to 'j' on an old, pre-slices 2.x system. Or was that my 1.1.5.1 box? A long time ago, anyway. :-) > I've never been a fan of this. May I make a recommendation (flame away, > boys): redo disklabel while we're at it. it seems counter-intuitive to > me, as well as wasteful, to make partition "c" the whole disk and skip "d" > altogether. IMHO, "da0s1" should refer to the whole disk, "da0s1a" should > be the first physical partition, "da0s1b" the second partition, etc. down > to "h". This gives us 8 partitions of any type: swap or FS. Sounds good to me. Another question: Where does that "8" limit come from? I /know/ I've used >8 partitions many years ago... > One more gripe: why was s1 chosen to be the first logical slice and not > s0? Did we computer scientists start counting with 1 by accident? That's mystified me, too. -- Phil Homewood pdh@asiaonline.net Senior Technician +61 7 3620 1930 Asia Online (Queensland) http://www.asiaonline.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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