From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 01:31:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BF516A403 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:31:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8161843D55 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:31:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9K1SVI7062976; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:28:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k9K1SVcF062975; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:28:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:28:31 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Agus Message-ID: <20061020012831.GB62787@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:31:08 -0000 Hi, On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:29:07PM -0300, Agus wrote: > Hi all. I was reading the installation of freebsd and get that only > partitions, sorry, labels a to h are allowed. is this so? > > So if i want to have the following scheme: > / > /home > /usr > /usr/local > /tmp > /var > /var/log > /homeb > > Can i make this? cause i tried, but i get an X in the label... The first question is, do you have any other OSen like MS-Win or possibly a diagnostic utility put there by a vendor using up a primary slice or two? The primary divisions of a disk in FreeBSD are the slices (unless you make one of those 'dangerously dedicated disks' which you don't really want to do). The slices are then [sub]divided in to partitions. There can be up to 4 primary slices numbered 1..4 and each slice can be divided in up to 8 partitions labeled a..h - with partition 'c' reserved to describe the whole slice and usually partition 'b' used for swap. So, effectively there are up to 6 partitions allowed per slice. So, if you haven't already used up all 4 slices, then just make more than 1 slice at the fdisk stage and divide each up with enough partitions to suit your situations. ////jerry > > Thanx guys.... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"