On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Dave Schmitt wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to upgrade from a 700MB drive to a 3.2GB drive but am having
> > some problems. I'm running NetBSD 1.3.1 on a MacIIci w/ a generic SBC
> > kernel. I partitioned the new drive w/ FWB HDT 2.5 and then used the current
> > version of mkfs to convert and format the root and usr partitions. I fired
> > up the installer to see what partition letters to use on the new drive (sd1a
> > for root, sd1e,f,h,i,j for the 5 user type partitions) and then made
> 
> Uhm, keep in mind that NetBSD only supports partitions a through h at the
> moment. The installer is lying. Either the "i" and "j" partitions will
> appear with different letters, or they won't appear at all.

Well, the current partitioning is as follows; most letters come from
Installer.

a 	NetBSD root	~300MB for / (with /tmp & /var)
b	NetBSD swap	~40 MB (double RAM)
c	[whole disk IIRC]
d	an FWB driver partition (exact name escapes me at moment)
e	HFS volume	~200MB for MacOS etc
f	NetBSD usr 	~500MB for /home
g	NetBSD usr 	~500MB for /usr
h	NetBSD usr 	~500MB for /usr/local
i	NetBSD usr 	~150MB for /mac/utils (*)
j	NetBSD usr 	~1 GB  for /mac/netdist (*)

(*) volumes that will be used for Mac files served over netatalk...

The FAQ said something about keeping to 6 partitions, which is probably
because of the maximum h partition you mentioned; I thought that meant
NetBSD partitions, so that's what I did. Is the Installer just coming up
with the HFS and driver partitions incorrectly? I.e., will netbsd actually
be ignoring these partitions, thus shifting f-j down to d-h? If so, can I
safely ignore the Installer's mistake or are things gonna get screwy?

The partitioning scheme can change drasticly if it's gonna cause problems
since I just came up with this one on the fly after talking to some people I
know who run linux; the old drive just had a tiny HFS, a huge root&usr and
a swap... 

Dave Schmitt <dschmi1@umbc.edu>