If anyone gets around to working on gparted (or an alternative) please consider making it use "megabyte aligned partitions" and ignore so-called "geometry" (like partition editors do on pretty much every other OS does now).
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 9:02 AM Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <oi-dev@openindiana.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 05:19:05 AM CDT, Aurélien Larcher > <aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip] > > I know gparted is not great... I attempted to port our patchset to newer > versions a long time ago but it was too much work... > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The issue is gparted dumps core on the 2020.10 Live Image. It works on the > 2017.10 Live Image and the 2020.10 installed system. I'm going to look very > closely at format as I think it might serve for EFI/GPT labels more sensibly. > I can see no reason for having 128 partitions. And I did manage to get a > traditional Sun partition table with 9 slots and an EFI label on a 5 TB disk. > IIRC I had to format it in Win 7 and then relabel it with format(1m). > > I just bought an HP Z840 with 1x 14 core E5-2690 V4 on ebay. I need to add 64 > GB of DRAM which may be a bit of a hassle because of the global chip > shortage. I'm planning on 4x 4 TB disks in RAIDZ2 configuration. A single > slice if booting a RAIDZ2 pool with a disk missing is reliable. > > Have Fun! > Reg > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
