Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:29:47 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk? Message-ID: <4B1109AB.6070007@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <200911091640.35419.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <4AF7D802.7030401@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <200911091640.35419.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > [ -current CC dropped ] > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: >> I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on a >> barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now >> done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitions >> from a through h except b and c is now obsoleted. When dropping into >> the installation process, I realised that the 8 partition boundary is >> still present. >> Is there a howto (I searched the wiki and lists without success)? I >> read a lot about how to install FreeBSD on op of a complete ZFS >> infrastructure, but key issue seems to be a hands-on partitioning of >> the target haddrive via the fixit procedure. > > sysinstall does not [yet] do GPT partitions, I believe someone is > working on patches but I have no idea what state they are in. Oh, I regret this. GPT partitions seem to me to be much more powerful than the old MBR. Hope we can get GPT support/replacement soon. > > Also, I didn't think that bsdlabel was limited to 8 partitions, however > I'm not certain. Manpage of bsdlabel(8) tells us that it can hold 8 entries in the partitioning table. I'm not quite sure, but months ago I read something about a change/patch allowing up to 26 entries (limitation to the alphabet). Days ago I installed a fresh new FreeBSD 8 on a new harddisk to get rid of some legacy geometry errors. I was wondering why still the a - h-label constraint in bsdlabel was still present. > > BTW gpart does many partition types not just MBR and GPT. > Oliver
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