Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.25 12:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Here I already don't understand how large the swap should be. Really 2 * size of the RAM? It depends on use patterns and the amount of RAM in your computer. 1.5* to 2* installed memory is a traditional works for most value, but I feel it's outdated for

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.25 13:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: IIUC Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition has to be done and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR. Not in your case. You won't need bootcode other than GRUB's (in the MBR, and the Linux partition where the bulk of it is installed).

Wheres the FreeBSD PBR ? (was Re: Manually partitioning using gpart / wh)

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work? I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it wouldn't do any hamr either. The /boot/gptboot code to be written weighs

Re: Manually partitioning using gpart

2012-11-25 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hi Warren, On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote: For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is good. Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Multi-boot Linux + FreeBSD

2012-11-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hi Ralf, On 2012.11.24 17:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Perhaps later today I'll install 9.0 amd64. If possible I'll keep my Linux GRUB legacy. Can I use my menu.lst [1] and add a chainloader or something similar to boot FreeBSD from /dev/sda1? I don't know if GRUB v1 allows that, on a multiboot

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.24 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready for production or should I wait a while yet? This probably won't help much, but I wouldn't call any system production ready until I've tested it as thoroughly as possible and

Re: Compatability for various USB 3.0 / PCIe cards ?

2012-11-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.23 22:11, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop time! For me it's usually *after* Christmas season, but whatever works :) I can't imagine that there is really that much different about the pricey ones to make them

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.18 09:58, Gary Kline wrote: I probably should cc the hardward guys about this. first, see if it geta any traction here, tho. my tech guy got me a Delll 3010 that has an improved [[meaning screwed up]] BIOS with some hardware mess called the UEFI.

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-12 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.13 06:22, Gary Kline wrote: anybody know what im NOT doing? running sshd ? :) Have you installed it ? sshd is the server program, it is fairly independent from ssh, the client program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ata controller problem / AHCI numbering

2012-10-27 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.10.26 14:18, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: if there is a Drive in one of the HotSwap Bays the PCI-Express controller is detected as ahci0 and the onboard is detected as ahci1. So Far i could have set some devices.hints entries to sort the scsi busses. But the problem is that if there are no

Re: 9.1 and gmirror with GPT?

2012-10-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.10.21 17:44, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote: Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating a full disk geom mirror while

Re: 9.1 and gmirror with GPT?

2012-10-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.10.24 22:10, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: On 2012.10.21 17:44, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 10/21/2012 07:32 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote: Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation

Re: 9.1 and gmirror with GPT?

2012-10-20 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hi, On 2012.10.20 20:17, free...@johnea.net wrote: Just wondering if 9.1 will bring any improvement to the situation of creating a full disk geom mirror while also using GPT partition table? I'm curious about what this is about. Could you refer me to an article or a discussion where this

Re: what is an in-core disklabel ?

2012-10-09 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.10.08 18:22, Robert Bonomi wrote: 'cached' is not _technically_ exactly accurate, but you have the concept basically correct. Thanks for the detailed explanation, Robert. Maybe shadowed would be have been a more accurate term. But in-core also has a nice ring to it!

what is an in-core disklabel ?

2012-10-08 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hi, I've seen the term in-core a couple times while reading up about BSD disk labels. Does it refer to data that is cached in kernel memory ? Context examples : - fdisk(8) outputs parameters extracted from in-core disklabel - bsdlabel(8)'s manual explains that the -n (dry run) parameter does