Re: hd numbering in 9.0beta1

2011-08-29 Thread Edho P Arief
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Roger Genre 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

Re: Hardware RAID and FreeBSD.

2011-04-28 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Colin Mitchell 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 woul

Re: partition types 'freebsd-boot' and (g/ufs)labels

2010-10-12 Thread Edho P Arief
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Alexander Best 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

Re: Apparent regression in extended/logical partition handling

2010-08-26 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Doug Barton 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 l