Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:02:13 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly Message-ID: <17612.48101.830405.56113@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060729141313.GA43548@hades.panopticon> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> <20060727202528.GA14954@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <200607282236.k6SMaRlj089446@apollo.backplane.com> <20060729141313.GA43548@hades.panopticon>
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>>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru> writes: Dmitry> * Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com) wrote: >> felt that 8 partitions is restrictive. My main home server has 10 >> and the main DragonFly box has 11. >> >> There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO* >> have four slices to play with. You can put a disklabel with 8 >> partitions in it on each one (for 32 total). It isn't as >> convenient, but it does work. Dmitry> About `lack' of partitions - don't forget that labels can be Dmitry> nested. Just do `bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s1e` - you'll get Dmitry> /dev/ad0s1ea. Don't also forget that gpt(8) exists and seems to provide for large numbers of partitions. It even seems to be compiled into GENERIC by default. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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