Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:13:55 +0100 From: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The "New BSD Installer" thread has shown me that I am totally obsolete in disk partitioning. Message-ID: <4F425523.9060709@brockmann-consult.de> In-Reply-To: <CALFgp2Op8dhJASYCJ_wYQXFxPyv%2BOMYtj9g0HgyAo2HJ3espzQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALFgp2Op8dhJASYCJ_wYQXFxPyv%2BOMYtj9g0HgyAo2HJ3espzQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 17.02.2012 21:08, schrieb Edwin L. Culp W.: > If such a thing exists, I need a howto in mixing and matching all the > different partitioning options and combinations, pro's and con's, for as > many modern situations as possible. Any suggestions appreciated. To create a full document from scratch explaining everything is likely beyond the capabilites of any individual. If you had more specific questions or topics, it would help us to help you more efficiently. What are you looking for? A gpart howto? Mirroring and other types of devices? mbr vs gpt? Whether or not to have separate partitions for /usr and /var, etc.? And then when you get your answers, submit a PR including the details of what you expected in the handbook, and what you learned elsewhere that should be added, and then in the PR, ask them to add what you wrote in the PR to the handbook. Personally, I can tell you a bunch about gpart, zfs, and explain or elaborate on technical jargon, but I don't know too much about sysinstall, bsdlabel, UFS, different boot options or FreeBSD software raid configuration files. All my FreeBSD machines are running pure ZFS, and I've only created temporary gpart, gstripe, etc. for tests so far. If I needed to put together a real software raid UFS system, I would need to look through documentation. > I did look at the handbook but it seems to have changed little and uses > sysinstall for the examples at: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html#SYSINSTALL-FDISK2 > > Thanks for any suggestions. I apologize for my ignorance. > > ed > > P.S. I have wanted to understand and try things like the following comment > to the thread, but I have no idea where to begin or options for doing it. > > Sorry, I wasnt suggesting that you should always mirror > the indiviudual partititons - just I happen to do that where > I am mixing ZFS and gmirror. Obviosuly you dont want to create > lots of little mirrors if you dont have to. But even with > one mirror, you can mirror a big partiton covering the whole > drive, and then carve that up with bsdlabel. No need to ever > mirror > the actual raw discs, and it works with GPT. I think he means something like this, but I don't know how to use bsdlabel, so here is gpart (one of the new things you should learn anyway). And also I don't know if the result of my code below would even boot, which bootcode to use, or what to put in /boot/loader.conf to make it boot. # create a gpt table (rather than MBR) gpart create -s gpt da0 #(not sure... boot loader needed outside the mirror?) gpart add -s 64k -l boot1 -t freebsd-boot da0 # add a slice for your mirror (aka. partition). # from quote: "But even with one mirror," gpart add -s 80g -l mirrorslice1 -t mbr da0 # set up the second disk gpart create -s gpt da1 #(not sure... boot loader needed outside the mirror?) gpart add -s 64k -l boot2 -t freebsd-boot da1 # from quote: "you can mirror *a big partiton* covering the whole drive" gpart add -s 80g -l mirrorslice2 -t mbr da1 # Not sure if "mbr" is the right choice for the type above... I also tried guessing "gpt" which didn't work and is not in the manual. # create the mirror device (I don't know the proper way to do this... I just tried this and don't know if it persists on boot, etc.) # from quote: "*you can mirror* a big partiton covering the whole drive" gmirror load gmirror label mymirror gpt/mirrorslice1 gpt/mirrorslice2 # slice the mirror device as if it was a regular disk # from quote: "and then carve that up with bsdlabel" (but I used gpart instead of bsdlabel) gpart create -s gpt gmirror/mymirror gpart add -s 1g -l root -t freebsd-ufs gmirror/mymirror gpart add -s 1g -l usr -t freebsd-ufs gmirror/mymirror newfs gpt/root newfs gpt/usr Further explanation of other things he said not involved in the above: "wasn't suggesting that you should always mirror the individual partititons" gpart create -s gpt da0 gpart create -s gpt da1 gpart add -s 1g -l root1 -t freebsd-ufs da0 gpart add -s 1g -l root2 -t freebsd-ufs da1 gpart add -s 1g -l usr1 -t freebsd-ufs da0 gpart add -s 1g -l usr2 -t freebsd-ufs da1 ... gmirror label rootmirror gpt/root1 gpt/root2 gmirror label mymirror gpt/usr1 gpt/usr2 ... #and an example of what he said you don't need to do: # from quote: "No need to ever mirror actual raw discs" gmirror label mymirror da0 da1 raw disk = da0 gpt slice/partition = da0p1 where 1 is the index seen in "gpart show" or gpt slice/partition = gpt/root1 where root1 is the label seen in "gpart show -l" and set in "gpart add ... -l labelhere" mirror device = mirror/mymirror etc. Be sure to align properly. I didn't do any aligning above. Use the "-a ..." option. Units in gpart are sectors unless you specify another, and sizes are in base-2 (eg. "-s 5g" would be a size of 5 GiB not 5GB) And you would also need a boot slice separate from the mirror unless the bootloader understands the mirror, and install the bootloader on both disks. I don't know if it does support this, or if it will work at all this way. You need to find this out somewhere other than from me. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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