Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:18:46 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD Message-ID: <20210318181846.3e8fc6b3@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20210317213615.7e1443af@antix1> References: <20210317213615.7e1443af@antix1>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:36:15 -0600, Duke Normandin wrote: >2 equal Primary partitions? Since there are strong opinions related to limitations of MBR, a bootable Linux doesn't need a primary partition at all. It can be installed on an extended partition, too. However, you might want to use three partitions, one for FreeBSD another for Linux and a third for a Linux swap. Actually there's no need to use a Linux swap partition, a swap file can be used, too. For Linux I'm in favour for everything in one partition, excepted of the swap. You didn't ask for a Linux multi-boot, since when using the syslinux bootloader without chainloading, the kernels of all Linux installs need to be on one partition. In a nutshell, assuming 1 FreeBSD install and 1 Linux install, I would go for 3 MBR partitions, assuming ext4 for Linux. Note, a lot of people claim to be satisfied with using ZFS on Linux, too. I'm not taking this path. If you consider to do so, also consider to care about hints such as "Warning: Do not run zpool import pool! This will import your pools using /dev/sd? which will lead to problems the next time you rearrange your drives. This may be as simple as rebooting with a USB drive left in the machine." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS#Importing_a_pool_created_by_id "Your boot time can be significantly impacted if you update your intitramfs (eg when doing a kernel update) when you have additional but non-permanently attached pools imported because these pools will get added to your initramfs zpool.cache and ZFS will attempt to import these extra pools on every boot, regardless of whether you have exported it and removed it from your regular zpool.cache." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS#Fix_slow_boot_caused_by_failed_import_of_unavailable_pools_in_the_initramfs_zpool.cache
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