From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 7 23:04:42 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BBD10371FB for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2018 23:04:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x236.google.com (mail-wm0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CFF870E4A for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2018 23:04:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x236.google.com with SMTP id v128-v6so249480wme.5 for ; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 16:04:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=M5+MsfJP90DUyRvnvJHWW37ENop59MlX0tjnVYAKTu0=; b=V0htPqDzJK6v9AY4m8P+4+kp+zOuURgp8uEUrwRsFH+/mEFN25DEPHWgcOdA/wH4GX SVbT+6D2BoxBy8fPb5EpNshbIDS6/d37fvT9nosUrBfytIBz9ADHmCJeMpHZ3Ict3Pt4 XZ98GlBjy5K3Y18gY8I7TmNGBlDGL7io9GA+VaQobRMxDH2nsJr038d6P1kzPuv4+phL DClvPE9Mbu8K7fBOc6HFSak8ewAz+mH1/qP0JZ46IIY4NFdQn/9IFBz5dpXULmG6FR+u 4gleI3vDUgz5+rFZbm3LzwGu2vkJlzFe08sv/73YDLt0ktiLbTHpEMepMKHZa+qMVaTH w8JQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APt69E2KZadZZnauYXOjVmabFhvKJ+n2QLC7Ozmwepys/eFWnAdBBT8f tu2P8y+UIyylB47C1PXeOZImlg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AAOMgpdp5w/jzyxh3l+MVrBxzUX3vCSNog7/YtJ35+B3PHL9j6TJ/92bkjIniI+GYwNuov8WJ/zrvA== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:7506:: with SMTP id o6-v6mr9489570wmc.60.1531004679911; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 16:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([2.222.27.178]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m136-v6sm6368551wma.32.2018.07.07.16.04.39 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sat, 07 Jul 2018 16:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 00:04:37 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR Message-ID: <20180708000437.2dd95933@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <0753eec0-674f-842f-2dae-c8405b004dc1@yandex.com> References: <98201d37-2d65-34c6-969e-c9649f1a3ab1@yandex.com> <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com> <0753eec0-674f-842f-2dae-c8405b004dc1@yandex.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 23:04:42 -0000 On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 03:28:30 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: > On 07/08/18 03:16, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 02:20:56 +0530 > > Manish Jain wrote: > >> There is one request I wished to make for FreeBSD filesystems. > >> While UFS implementation under GPT is unnested just as Ext2, the > >> MBR implementation of UFS continues to piggyback on an unnecessary > >> nest (in a BSD slice). > > You can put UFS on an MBR partition if you want to. > > How ? Can you give me the gpart command for that ? Remember, the > command must put the UFS partition directly into the MBR. Not first > into a BSD nest. If you create an MBR partition you can run newfs on it - I done this for data partitions. Whether or not you can make that a bootable partition I don't know, I've never tried. I don't think there's any intrinsic reason why it can't be done, it's a matter of whether it's supported by a tool. If you just want to put a single FreeBSD install on a disk without the slice you can use a "dangerously dedicated" install, the traditional unix install.