Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly


:
:* Matthew Dillon (dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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.
:About `lack' of partitions - don't forget that labels can be nested.
:Just do `bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s1e` - you'll get /dev/ad0s1ea.
:
:--
:Best regards,
: Dmitry mailto:amdmi3@xxxxxxx

Oh, very cute! A terrible hack if you ask me, but cute all the same!

-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
_______________________________________________
freebsd-hackers@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Partition order
    ... Michael C. wrote: ... caver1 wrote: ... I get the first three partitions fine. ... I am playing aroud with setting up a home server and am new to Linux and to servers. ...
    (alt.linux)
  • Re: Multiple Installs = Multiple Swap Partitions?
    ... Per John Hasler: ... >They can also all use the same home and tmp ... >partitions. ... So, if I wanted to try to be cute about it, I could carve out a FAT32 partition, ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)