Re: USB 3.0 (Re: NetBSD 6.0)

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 15.10.2011 10:18, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> If wedges break up file systems, they are not really at fault --
>> labels or MBR are.
> 
>> -- Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost
> 
> Or NetBSD's way of interpreting disklabels or MBR.

Yes.

> Even if I install NetBSD on a USB stick, I would still put the source
> tree and pkgsrc on a hard-drive partition, likely the same partition
> I used for FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 .
> 
> I remember, under MBR and traditional BSD disklabels, how NetBSD
> overwrote the FreeBSD disklabel with its own on the FreeBSD
> partition.
> 
> First time, with FreeBSD 7.2 and no packages/ports installed, I could
> no longer access that partition until I installed FreeBSD 8.0.
> 
> Then with packages installed from ports, NetBSD again wrecked the
> FreeBSD disklabel, but this time, I had a backup copy and fixed the
> error, and FreeBSD was back in business as if nothing had gone wrong.
> But I think now that bug has been fixed at the NetBSD end.
> 
> So I would be sure to keep a backup of the hard-drive partition
> table, GPT in this case, on a USB stick: a good idea, anyway.

If it is not, ping us.

-- 
Jean-Yves Migeon
jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost