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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/16/25 11:21, Atiq Rahman wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello Stephan,</div>
<div>> now i just swap the boot discs. Its far easier....
additional boot disc (128-512 gb?)</div>
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<div>On 8/16/25 07:50, Atiq Rahman wrote:<br>
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<div>> FreeBSD has switched around the terms “slice”
and “partition”. They are using “slice" for fdisk/mbr
case and “partition” for everything else.</div>
<div>Thank you for sharing the fun fact!</div>
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<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>Just to share my humble opinion..</p>
<p>Partitioning is a point where i had my 'problems', too.
These slices never really burnt in my mind, ('slice 2 is
whole disc' - why no. 2??) </p>
<p>Especially for new users without solarish bachground a
tool that is 'like fdisk' would be handy - i really
don't like format and fdisk cause i don't really know
what they do :-/</p>
<p>On OI we have "parted", "gdisk" and "cgdisk" which are
sort of this, for 'modern' GPT disc labels. <br>
That's really great. With UEFI working now flawlessly i
don't need anything else anymore.</p>
<p>For me, i now use UFEI boot using whoe disc, in one
case i did pre-partinioning to create a pool that is
smaller than whole disc for later mirroing..,<br>
and zfs pools with 'whole disc' devices.</p>
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<p>~10 years ago i battled with dual boot setups, now i
just swap the boot discs. Its far easier. <br>
These some € more for additional boot disc (128-512 gb?)
really free spare time to create something more
productive.</p>
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<p>Just my 2 cents,</p>
<p>Stephan</p>
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<p>Hi!</p>
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<p>I have a laptop as my daily workstation, running OI with GUI,
nvidia m1200 buildtin.<br>
I use standard apps like firefox, librewolf, thunderbird, gimp,
libreoffice, ...<br>
For my remote work i have a VBox vm which acts as my Window into
the company's vpn which has 'some' requirements.</p>
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<p>I have a primergy server with gui-less OI and zones for my
private cloud services (synchronized EMail, family calendar,
Photos, ...)</p>
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<p>I have a 3rd workstation where i use the swap disc solution where
i use and test some bhyve with GPU passthrough configurations, now
merely between FreeBSD and OI and SmartOS... (no success on
illumos with win guest yet)<br>
i thought of having a MacOS vm for my private photo editing, but
didn't got so far..</p>
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<p>I really like the Boot Environments, so you call always go back
if theres some issue (try that on linux/win)<br>
Second, is illumos its bomb stable, and the OI maintainers do an
impressive job on keeping all packages clean and on current
versions...</p>
<p>i whish i had more time to spend on OI contributing..
Contributing here is really easy, at least when you've done it 2-3
times: fork->local
clone->branch->change->commit->push->PR ... But i
have done not more than more than a few veeery simple Version
upgrades...</p>
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<p>Regards,<br>
Stephan</p>
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