From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 12:35: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7459737B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:34:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id MAA19990; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:33:07 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda19988; Tue Nov 21 12:33:02 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eALKWu002377; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdVr2369; Tue Nov 21 12:31:58 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eALKVwl25437; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:31:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011212031.eALKVwl25437@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdT25433; Tue Nov 21 12:31:28 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , FreeBSD , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:05:51 MST." <14874.54687.892854.894715@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:31:28 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <14874.54687.892854.894715@nomad.yogotech.com>, Nate Williams writes : > > FreeBSD writes: > > > 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. > > > > Six (a, d, e, f, g, h) plus swap (b), and there's nothing that says b > > has to be a swap partition, so make that seven. There's nothing that > > says a swap partition has to be partition b either, BTW. > > > > Technically, you can use c as well, but that's playing with fire. > > I think 'c' is reserved to be the disk. If nothing else, it *must* > start at the beginning of the disk. "c" doesn't have to be the entire disk, though IMO one would be a fool to fool around with it. FreeBSD is quite forgiving if you don't have a partition that starts at the start of the disk because you can always use the "parent" device node to access it. Under some vendor UNIXen, you don't have that luxury. I agree in a BSD world "c" should be the entire disk or fdisk partition. In a SYSV world, slice "2" should be the entire disk. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message