From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 19:36:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intranet.ru (tcms8.intranet.ru [212.164.0.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE5137B419; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.164.0.132] (account ) by intranet.ru (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 3.4.8) with HTTP id 6612490; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:36:37 +0600 From: "Eugene Panchenko" Subject: Re: More than 6 partitions on one slice? To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.3.4.8 Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:36:37 +0600 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20011207131850.F57799@monorchid.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="KOI8-R" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm afraid that I can't use b since it's my swap... > > OK, but in general this works. Oh, no doubt, I was speaking only for my case... > > > if you're using a PC, you can create 4 slices in > > > Microsoft partitions > > > > I've already have used up all 4 partitions for QNX, > > NetBSD, MSDOS622 (yeah, I admit), and, of course, > > FreeBSD :) > > OK, but in general this works. Same thing here ;-) > There are a large number of reasons why this won't work. > The most obvious one is the question of device nodes: > the minor number only has three bits for the partition > number, so it wouldn't work. You'd be better off with > the Vinum solution. :-(( But your explanation is very good, thanks!.. > I still have difficulty believing you need this many > partitions. The reason is quite simple, consider my current layout: / a swap b c /var/ftp d /var e /tmp f /usr g /home h And I have about 50G (out of 80G) left. I'd like to use it for, say, /mnt/media, or something like that. I also want to mount /var/www separately -- so much easier for doing backups (oh I *love* dump/restore ;-)) Thanks again!!! ---------------------------------------------------------- πΟΣΕΤΙΤΕ "νοσλοχσλικ ηοςοδσλοκ σακτ" http://mosk.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message