From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 21 10: 1:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.xs4all.nl (smtp3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139EC37B406 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp3.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08055; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:01:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6LH15f18566; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:01:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:01:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Bill Moran Subject: Re: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel Message-ID: <20010721190105.B18482@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D73@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010720212726.B53370@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010720212726.B53370@dragon.nuxi.com>; from nobody@NUXI.com on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:27:26PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:27:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Anyway, the above is a long-winded justification for the following > > suggestions: > > 1) if disklabel has already been told about '/', then it > > should not try and reserve partition 'a' of OTHER SLICES > > to also be '/'. The first partition created in those > > other slices should just be labelled partition 'a'. > > I don't want my data partition in say sd0s4 to be `a'. `a' implies root. > So your suggestion will irritate some. Like me (if that counts ;-) > > 2) similarly, if it already has swap space defined, then > > it should not try to reserve partition 'b' of other > > slices to be swap. The second partition defined in > > those other slices should be labelled partition 'b'. > > What is wrong with having more than one slice with swap in it? > Nothing. On the same disk it does not make too much sense, but it should not be illegal. > > 4) never reserve 'a' or 'b'. Always create partitions in the > > order people typed them in, except that WHEN someone says > > they want to create '/', THEN both move that partition > > to the front of the slice and name it 'a' (renaming other > > partitions as needed). > > NO! Many want to put swap at the "beginning" of the disk as that is the > fastest part of the disk. The i386 has no problems booting from a People optimising the speed of the swap device are in a state of sin anyway. They should go out and buy some more memory to make their working set fit in core. [I know.. this is taking shortcuts. ] > partition that is not located at the beginning of the disk(slice). The > problem with the Alpha is people try the same "trick", but it does not > work. No.. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte "Youth is not a time in life, it is a state of mind" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message