Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:01:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Subject: Re: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel Message-ID: <20010721190105.B18482@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010720212726.B53370@dragon.nuxi.com>; from nobody@NUXI.com on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:27:26PM -0700 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D73@l04.research.kpn.com> <p0510100cb77ced816fa2@[128.113.24.47]> <20010720212726.B53370@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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
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