Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it without any problem. It _may_ be possible that some systems like Windows have trouble with this approach, what trouble? Windows doesn't probably see anything. anyway i would not risk running windows with FreeBSD containing disk connected at the same time anyway. it's always risky. To

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ah the FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DANGEROUSLY-DEDICATED I don't think it's dangerous either. Thanks for your explanations. While it's far simpler. Anyway i wasn't aware it's called that way as i don't use installer ___

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
disks. Maybe you get a few kb of extra space. Don't do it. because? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there any performance advantage to using a dedicated disk layout no. it is simplicity adventage, as well as (for SSD and 4K sector disks) far easier to put partitions aligned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 11:16:33 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: Ah the FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DANGEROUSLY-DEDICATED I don't think it's dangerous either. Thanks for your explanations. While it's far simpler. Anyway i wasn't aware it's called that way as

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 11:15:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: it without any problem. It _may_ be possible that some systems like Windows have trouble with this approach, what trouble? Windows doesn't probably see anything. I have _no_ idea. Systems behaving in a manner you cannot

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
While it's far simpler. Anyway i wasn't aware it's called that way as i don't use installer As far as I know, the installer dropped dedicated mode some time ago. So if you intendedly want to use it, you need to bypass the installer and do the few simple steps using the CLI. i already do this,

router

2012-07-07 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I have a printer connected through router which works. But the last two days I found three printed papers: two are empty and on the one is: GET http://www.rackspace.com/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.rackspace.com User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible, MSIE 6.0: Windows NT 5.1) Axxept: */*

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.03.shtml That is EXTREMELY old advice. completely irrevelant now. Why so many people blindly repeat some rules without understanding it. Even years after that rule no longer matters. The other example is creating lots of partitions.

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
environment. gpart(8) can create MBR slice/partition layouts (and GPT and other partition schemes). See the man page. There is little reason to use fdisk and bsdlabel any more. i use only disklabel, no fdisk at all. i put partition start sector where i want - no align problems. I did

GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Carmel
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? I'd suggest to look into the PC-BSD installer and the utilities that come

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to compile linux software. Anyway i see no reason for such a

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Beni Brinckman
2012/7/7 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to

boot0 boot manager

2012-07-07 Thread iPwn
i have a disk with apple operating system installed, Mac OSX 10.5.8, if i resize the disk and create another partition for FreeBSD and then install FreeBSD on that partition i will obtain the boot0 boot manager when i startup computer? also, it will show the option to load the Mac OSX or i

Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Carmel
This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com ___

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. In that case, screw slices and

RE: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: 07 July 2012 14:50 To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: GUI for gpart I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there

qbittorrent freezes, ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffff8004667e

2012-07-07 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
hello, world\n is anybody else seeing this? On a fresh 9-STABLE/amd64 as of July 7, with all ports compiled from scratch. Qbittorrent (2.9.11) freezes after about 10 to 20 seconds, reacts to mouse clicks only after a minute or so; the window isn't redrawn when it was obscured by other windows and

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. In that case, screw slices and

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What happened to the idea of having a choice ? If you want to keep living in the 80's with a text based menu, go ahead, I prefer a click not only me but anyone that wants productivity do live in 80's text based interfaces or even 60-70's command line interfaces. These are facts. And

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD,

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes. -- Bruce Cran

RE: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Perhaps your English phrasing loses something in translation, but your opinions are always presented in a way that you are correct and the rest of the world is just wrong. what you expect - to assume i am wrong and everyone else is right. if i assume so i don't present such opinion

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:08, Bruce Cran wrote: On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes.

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. Yes, gpart will work with pretty much any storage

anoncvs password

2012-07-07 Thread perryh
What is one supposed to enter when anoncvs prompts for a password? I have tried: * my email address, as I would use for anon FTP * ftp, as was once conventionally used for anon FTP * cvs (same idea, but mentioning the transport in use) * nothing -- just hit return None of these works. I get