Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:51:31 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011208205131.A56648@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200112081911.fB8JBTW06147@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800 References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <p05101006b83737546907@[128.113.24.47]> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> <20011208103048.C11428@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112081911.fB8JBTW06147@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:49:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> We do not have enough partition id's to make a separate > :> /usr/local. > : > :Has anyone considered raising the max number of partitions from 8 to 16 > :as OpenBSD did years ago? > > Oh, by the way... there is actually a way you can bump up the number > of partitions. What you do is split the disk up into multiple slices. > We have 4, after all. You can then disklabel each one. This works on x86 but not on alpha which does not use slices. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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