[Wylug-help] Building FreeBSD and NetBSD filesystems on Linux

[Dave Fisher]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:44:54PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:
> >I've been messing about with Xen recently and managed to run many
> >different distros and OSes in VMs (domains in xen-speak).
<snip>
> >So does anyone know a simple way of creating UFS and UFS2 slices,
> >partitions, and filesystems from Linux?
> 

> Having never used Xen I might not be understanding things right but...
> 
> If your plan is to create an LV, format that as UFS then use it with
> Xen I'm dubious, since I'm not sure how your BSD VM is going to view
> that disk.

Ah, sharp thinking, as ever!

That was exactly what I was (un)thinking of doing, and it was clearly
nonsense.

> It's often quite handy to partition your disk quite heavily and make
> multiple PVs part of your VG rather than making a single PV on a disk
> to avoid problems like this, as you can simply ditch a PV and make it
> into a regular partition.

Sound advice. Thanks ... it's a good job I can afford to trash the
current disk layout ;-)

Dave