Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:33:48 +1030 From: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x Message-ID: <CACM2%2B-7v693Y=JHGZB_LEKjAAPfZMcSyjopTaaS266Nss0X0Jg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111009092422.416011065670@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20111009092422.416011065670@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 9 October 2011 19:54, Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> wrote: > One issue that has not come up on the emailing list is that dd, designed to > work with memsticks of various capacities, can not make the backup gpt at > the end of the memstick. > > Partition is just big enough to hold the data, and I ran out of inodes at > times due to the installer writing to /tmp on the memstick. > > Maybe a script to put a backup GPT at the end on the memstick, and make the > second partition fill the space available so as not to be too tightly > squeezed? > A script is a kludge. As we have no need for larger than 2TiB install images we should use the POLA and continue to support dd writing our memstick images which means don't use GPT for them.
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