From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 03:52:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA12424 for current-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 03:52:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA12373 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 03:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA21518 for FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:52:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id MAA29628; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:49:33 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:49:33 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] References: <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Warner Losh on Jan 10, 1997 23:12:58 -0700 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Warner Losh wrote: > Ollivier Robert writes: > : One should be able to put a second partition (fdisk term) on a disk and > : then use up to 7 slices into that new partition... Arrgh! Please, don't start to confuse the names here, too! But yes, you can have multiple slices with up to 7 partitions each. > When OpenBSD bumped their stuff from 8 to 16 partitions, there were > relatively few things that broke and needed fixing. What about backwards-compatibility to themselves? I think that's the biggest issue. > I thought you could have up to four slices, not 7. Does FreeBSD grok > extended partitions now? Uh-oh, Warner. :-) That's possible since FreeBSD 2.0.5. I think you can have 32 slices or so (that's more than DOS can have, it has only 26 drive letters :-). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)