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Re: GEOM userland tools?



Hi Robert,

On Monday 01 November 2010 22:57:50 Robert Millan wrote:
> 2010/11/1 Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de>:
> > For this box, the grub probing fails completely, devices start at ad0,
> > ad2, ad4, ... and stop after 8 devices IIRC, however, during partioning
> > I was configuring ad52 as a boot device.
> 
> I'll adjust the limit in GRUB.  Just tell me, how many disks can this
> beast host?
> 
This box 48 SATA disks. I might want to test it in the near future on a box 
with 72 disks, but so far I'm not certain we will buy it, so around there 
should be a sane level, unless one used this on a really large SAN 
environment.

> > Is there a userland package for gpt or glabel available? With apt-cache I
> > haven't fond anything, nor was my (brief) google search very productive.
> 
> Try parted or gnu-fdisk.

Wilco!

Carsten


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