Problems with this setup?

[eastwind]

I recently upgraded my drive from the original to a 160 (in a DVR80). When I was hacking it I did a backup-restore. Then I created a new partition @ 14 (ext2) and renamed one of the MFS partitions for cosmetic reasons. Then I mfsadd'ed the rest of the drive. Will this setup be acceptable?

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Image Bootstrap 1 1 @ 67304512
3: Image Kernel 1 8192 @ 67304513 ( 4.0M)
4: Ext2 Root 1 262144 @ 67312705 (128.0M)
5: Image Bootstrap 2 4096 @ 67574849 ( 2.0M)
6: Image Kernel 2 4096 @ 67578945 ( 2.0M)
7: Ext2 Root 2 262144 @ 67583041 (128.0M)
8: Swap Linux swap 260096 @ 67845185 (127.0M)
9: Ext2 /var 262144 @ 68105281 (128.0M)
10: MFS MFS application region 1048576 @ 68367425 (512.0M)
11: MFS MFS media region 67304448 @ 64 ( 32.1G)
12: MFS Second MFS app region 1048576 @ 69416001 (512.0M)
13: MFS Second MFS media region 85964800 @ 70464577 ( 41.0G)
14: Ext2 hacks 262144 @ 156429377 (128.0M)
15: MFS New MFS Application 1024 @ 156691521
16: MFS New MFS Media 111738880 @ 156692545 ( 53.3G)
17: Apple_Free Extra 4030 @ 268431425 ( 2.0M)


ew

[rfc]

It certainly looks nominal to me...but then again, I did NOT stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. :o

Is creating an entirely new partition for hacks preferable to just putting them in the root? In an upgrade, would you have to re-create it and ftp the hacks again?

[eastwind]

It certainly looks nominal to me...but then again, I did NOT stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. :o

Is creating an entirely new partition for hacks preferable to just putting them in the root? In an upgrade, would you have to re-create it and ftp the hacks again?
I don't think an upgrade changes the partition table. Only (2/)3/4 or (5/)6/7. Only thing is I might've made it a tad big.

ew

[rfc]

I don't think an upgrade changes the partition table. Only (2/)3/4 or (5/)6/7. Only thing is I might've made it a tad big.

ew

They say: you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much space for your hacks! :D

[rfc]

Then I created a new partition @ 14 (ext2) and renamed one of the MFS partitions for cosmetic reasons.

ew

What command did you use to add the partition?

[eastwind]

What command did you use to add the partition?
It's a pdisk command. 'C 14p' I think. Had to experiment a little as I don't know pdisk that well. Only reference was online/inline help though, so it can't be too hard to figure out. 'C'reate and 14p tells it the beginning of the 14th partition which was Apple Free blah, blah--whatever the extra, unassigned space is called.

ew

[PlainBill]

I recently upgraded my drive from the original to a 160 (in a DVR80). When I was hacking it I did a backup-restore. Then I created a new partition @ 14 (ext2) and renamed one of the MFS partitions for cosmetic reasons. Then I mfsadd'ed the rest of the drive. Will this setup be acceptable?
<SNIP>

ew

All I can say is give it a try. I have seen a reference to a 16 partition limit on Apple drives. Given that MFS tools didn't balk at this, I think you have a very good chance of it working.

Also, pdisk has an interactive mode (pdisk -i); adding partitions is still a bear, but at least you get a second chance at it before writing anything to the drive.

PlainBill

[eastwind]

All I can say is give it a try. I have seen a reference to a 16 partition limit on Apple drives. Given that MFS tools didn't balk at this, I think you have a very good chance of it working.

Also, pdisk has an interactive mode (pdisk -i); adding partitions is still a bear, but at least you get a second chance at it before writing anything to the drive.

PlainBill
This system has been running for a week or so, but the drives are nowhere near full. I've heard the same thing about the 16 partition limit, but I'm thinking that I will never need to address the 17th partition and it won't be an issue (knock on wood). I was hoping to find out if anyone knew for certain that it was a bad idea before I do the same thing with a 250GB drive and an LBA48 kernel. I've booted both boot/root pairs on the drive and with only minor (user error) problems (things like dd'ing the 3/4 to 6/7 but not changing the fstab, changing the bootpage -P but not flipping the boot partition). One partition montes to a s2_unscramble kernel (3.1.1c) and the other doesn't monte at all.

ew