From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 05:29:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9410B16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (alt.aurema.com [203.217.18.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8145043D46 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vance@aurema.com) Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.sw.oz.au with ESMTP id i3SCTLMd012352; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:29:21 +1000 (EST) Received: (from vance@localhost) by smtp.sw.oz.au id i3SCTHLJ012256; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:29:17 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:29:17 +1000 From: Christopher Vance To: Allan Fields Message-ID: <20040428122917.GA24544@aurema.com> References: <200404270855.09646.h@schmalzbauer.de> <200404271631.i3RGVFYF032496@apollo.backplane.com> <20040427202132.GB6692@afields.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040427202132.GB6692@afields.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: antwort@schmalzbauer.de Subject: Re: More than 8 labels per slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:29:43 -0000 On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Allan Fields wrote: >Partition Layout: >1: OpenBSD >2: FreeBSD >3: NetBSD >4: Extended > 5: Windows 2K (NTFS) > 6: Shared (FAT32) > 7 DFBSD Shared /usr (ufs) > 8 DF/FBSD Shared /home (ufs) > 9: Linux Swap > 10: Linux Boot (e2fs) > 11: Linux Temp (e2fs) > 12: Linux Gentoo Root (e2fs) > 13: Linux Gentoo Usr (reiserfs) > 14: ... > n: Test Partitions I use the Ranish partition manager with layout something like: 1: FAT C: 2: one each of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, etc. 3: extended containing ntfs, different /usr, shared data, etc. 4: Ranish 1 & each 2 are about 150 MB. 4 is the partial track at the end. I only ever change partition 2, between the different things I want to boot, leaving 1, 3 and 4 alone. >Additionally, to the best of my knowledge it's not support/advisable >to have any BSD disklabels in extended logical partitions. Should >this be supported in the future? (Perhaps w/ GEOM) By having only one BSD visible at a time, that's not a huge problem. Like you, I had problems trying to use all of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD without separate primary partitions, so now they each have them, but not all visible at the same time. Of course, these partitions only need to be big enough to boot from, although I make mine big enough for a minimal install, including /usr. I then make a bigger partition in the extended area for /usr and everything else. Actually, I install everything on the partition in the extended area from / down, then after mounting the extended partition, I do something like mount /ext cd /; mv usr usr.old; ln -s /ext/usr . This means if I need to reinstall off CD, as sometimes happens with a -CURRENT, I can do it in the extended partition without overwriting /bin and /sbin until I want to. I have a second disk in the machine with more bootable partitions, managed similarly for DragonFly (not yet installed), Plan9, and probably another branch of FreeBSD after the eventual 5-STABLE. The version of Ranish I'm using is the 'beta'. I've never had a problem with it. -- Christopher Vance