> Is anyone running venti with raw disk partitions on Unix? I've got a > nice large disk to dedicate to it, and would like to do it without > needlessly imposing another fs, if possible, but am running into > problems. The blocker now is fmtarenas is complaining that it > "can't determine size of partition" for raw disk partitions.
I've used raw disk partitions on FreeBSD recently, and raw disk partitions on Linux a while back. What OS are you running, and what does 9 ls -l /dev/your-disk print? Assuming it prints a size of 0, you need to figure out how to get the real disk size out of the kernel. See /usr/local/plan9/src/lib9/_p9dir.c. Russ