From: "Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] ~Off Topic: disk layout
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:02:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82c890d00701281002q42980820i92d662df38388ef8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
hello
it was usual in the unix time (that is, when there was no plan9) to
have those bloated disk layouts that lunix suggests? or just was
common to have a couple of disks instead of one?
i wonder where that came from. . .
thanks,
gabi
On 1/28/07, sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/28/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> > if(test -f /dev/mousectl && ~ $mouseport ps2 ps2intellimouse 0 1 2 usb){
> > if(~ $mouseport usb)
> > usbstart
> > if not
> > aux/mouse $mouseport
>
> Inspired by this code, I tried entering some gibberish at the
> mouseport prompt instead of just hitting enter, and suddenly the
> keyboard worked for the install.
> So, two hours and one recovery from having my partition table crapped
> on (thank you testdisk) later, I have plan9 installed. Tomorrow I'll
> see if I can convince lilo to boot it and check out the usb stuff.
>
> But OK, the partition thing deserves some attention. I'm actually
> somewhat impressed and somewhat horrified at the same time... Here was
> my setup prior to the plan9 install (9039 cylinders total):
> PRI1 0001-8633 Extended
> PRI2 8634-8756 Linux swap
> LOG5 0001-0032 Linux /boot
> LOG6 0033-2465 Linux /home
> LOG7 2466-4333 Linux /usr
> LOG8 4334-4956 Linux /var
> LOG9 4957-5081 Linux /
> LOG10 5082-5144 Linux /tmp
>
> So I went to give plan9 about 5G of logical partition at 5145-5775
> (IIRC I entered p8 as the partition name in plan9's fdisk, which may
> have marked the start of my problems). This is what I ended up with:
> PRI1 0001-5144 Extended
> PRI2 5145-5775 Plan9
> PRI3 8634-8756 Linux swap
> LOG5 0001-0032 Linux /boot
> LOG6 0033-2465 Linux /home
>
> And that's it, logical partitions 7-10 where nowhere to be found
> (linux wasn't to happy when it couldn't find its root device). So
> plan9 shoved the swap partition out of the way and made a new primary
> for itself (this is the impressive part). Fortunately, after restoring
> the missing partitions and booting back into linux it hasn't mounted
> /dev/sda2 as swap and pissed all over the plan9 install. I think that
> makes the score Linux: 1 Plan9: 0 sqweek: -1.
>
> I'm not sure whether it's the partitioning step that did me in or the
> boot setup. Since I don't have windows and couldn't be assed looking
> for a floppy, I hit plan9 at that step, which may have been what
> motivated it to put itself on a primary partition.
>
next reply other threads:[~2007-01-28 18:02 UTC|newest]
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2007-01-28 18:02 Gabriel Diaz [this message]
2007-01-28 18:17 ` sqweek
2007-01-28 18:54 ` Gabriel Diaz
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