Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:47:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: freebsd@johnea.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.1 and gmirror with GPT? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210231837130.21493@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <5086C7EB.9020104@johnea.net> References: <5082EAEE.4040609@johnea.net> <50833F78.1060609@bnrlabs.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210210827530.70277@wonkity.com> <5085C743.8000508@johnea.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210221631250.13158@wonkity.com> <5086C7EB.9020104@johnea.net>
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, freebsd@johnea.net wrote: > In recent years I've just been creating a swap partition and one big root partition. It just seems as soon as I make all the traditional partitions, one runs out of room. > > Do you feel there are any major disadvantages of this approach? Backup of split filesystems can be easier. The traditional split-filesystem approach kind of separates things by use, and some people create a separate /home also. The advantage of one big root is efficient use of free space on small drives. > To create a swap and then a root that fills the rest of the disk, must the swap be created first, like this: > > gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4k -s 4g mirror/gm0s1 > gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k mirror/gm0s1 > > Is there any other way to tell gpart to create the / partition using all space except 4G? I'm afraid it requires one to Use Math(tm). gpart show will at least show the real capacity of a drive, instead of the diagonally-measured inflated units used by drive vendors.
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