Re: hd numbering in 9.0beta1
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Roger Genre genre.ro...@orange.fr wrote: But adding a new hard disk will shift one, more, or all the previous numbers, (depênding from the channel the new disk is attached to), making the /etc/fstab files irrelevant, and leading kernel in panic at boot-up. there's a good reason we have geom_label now. My fstab now looks like this: /dev/ufs/root3 / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/swap3 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 -- O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID and FreeBSD.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Colin Mitchell c...@colinrmitchell.endoftheinternet.org wrote: Anyways, I bought a new lower-end computer that I was hoping to replace both with. It is a dirt-cheap dual-core AMD that I had built for $175US. It came with a 500GB HDD, and I would like to get another one to put in it. Now, I would like to set up as a mirrored RAID setup (I think). I don't really know much about RAID, but I want to have the same disk image on both hard drives (in case one fails), and possibly three if I buy another HDD in the future. Is RAID 1 what I want? I also want to do SVN on it for my PhD code, as well as back up my Wordpress, Coppermine, etc... Now, here is where the FreeBSD gurus can chime in. I would like to get a hardware RAID card to tie it all together. I am also looking for a cheap one, maybe $30-$60US, if this is even feasible. Anyone have any suggestions? Any successes? As I'm in softraid camp, I suggest saving yourself from buying a raid card (especially the cheap ones) and use gmirror instead. Also, I see a lot of talk on here bout ZFS. Is this something I should try, instead of the standard UFS? Only if you have lots of ram (4 GiB or more). Possible with less ram but I believe it's not recommended. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: partition types 'freebsd-boot' and (g/ufs)labels
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: as you can see ada0p1 has a proper glabel in place, still in addition to that 'glabel status' shows its gptid. is this really necessary? I believe the gptid will only vanish if the partition in question is being used (mounted, part of geom or part of zpool) -- O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Apparent regression in extended/logical partition handling
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: Specifically what I did was to boot Windows XP, delete all the partitions other than the XP partition (first primary dos-style partition) and then create a dos-style extended partition, and a logical drive inside of it, leaving room for linux in that same extended partition. Since I want that data volume to be fat32, and it is too large for windows to do it, I next installed FreeBSD 9-current, in a dos-style primary partition. I got it installed fine, but when I booted into FreeBSD 9 to format the logical volume it could not see it. fdisk showed the right information about the extended partition, but in /dev instead of seeing no ad0s2 and seeing ad0s5 like I expected instead there was no ad0s5 and there were ad0s2 entries that mirrored the ad0s3 that FreeBSD 9 was installed on. IOW, I had ad0s3 and ad0s3[a-f] as expected, but I had the same for ad0s2 even though they were obviously not valid. how does it look like in # gpart show ? One side note, I was taught back in the day that dos-style extended partitions always had to be at the end of the disk. Before trying the configuration I have I searched quite a few places to find a reference to that rule and couldn't find one. Perhaps this is something that's actually improved in the PC world in the last 25 years? :) after 25 years, x86 world finally started adapting GPT :) -- O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
