Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:15:01 +0200 From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerously dedicated mode with FreeBSD 10.1 Message-ID: <CANt7McGo__bV-o7-tht6viqvb-eNnijQ7pZvaSnoDt9NuqjCoQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <546F6D79.9060909@freebsd.org> References: <CANt7McFwQJNmBEJGTed%2B27K%2BVAY80V1zJSXBwHC0TmrX1iyPpw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411210815470.12278@wonkity.com> <546F6D79.9060909@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 11/21/14 07:26, Warren Block wrote: >> If you are determined, it should be possible to select a bsdlabel-only >> format with the Manual partitioning option in the menus, or enter Shell mode >> on startup and create it with gpart or even bsdlabel. That said, I can't >> think of any advantages of using a bare bsdlable at all. With 10.1, GPT is >> available, supports large disks, and is easily alignable.* > > > Right, just select "BSD" as the partition type. Yes it works. Unfortunately disk partitioning of bsdinstall(8) isn't precise and isn't informative. Disk partitioning by sysinstall(8) was much better in this sense. With bsdinstall(8) I don't see how much disk space is left unpartitioned and where. Also I don't see where partitions start and what are their sizes in LBA units of measurement. By default bsdinstall(8) offers one huge partition for the root mount and a few hundreds of megabytes for swap partition after the root one. If don't like the offered partition sizes and want to create the same partitions manually (with slightly different sizes) I can't do it because of the precision flaw. Defining the root partitions in GB units with a size close to the whole disk size doesn't left any free space for the small swap partition. And if I create a swap partition before the root one I get an unbootable system. Another problem with bsdinstall(8) partitioning is an inability of using already partitioned disk. This is what I've tried first. In this case I was need to define the mount points of the existing partitions. It's easy to do (since I have a backup of my previous /etc/fstab) but then bsdinstall(8) didn't ask me if I want to re-format those partitions. Then the whole installation failed at the beginning of base.txz extracting (the first txz package). I'm almost sure it failed because it tried to extract the base.txz over existing filesystem of my previous FreeBSD 7.4 system.
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