Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:52:55 -0600 From: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> To: "Matt Dillon" <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Limit on the number of disklabel entries? Message-ID: <009201c0831a$94db1cf0$b8209fc0@marlowe> References: <33819.980017896@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200101201930.f0KJUKw08417@earth.backplane.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Dillon" <dillon@earth.backplane.com> > In the mean time, it is possible to quadruple the number of partitions > you have by using all four fdisk slice entries. Each slice can have its > own partition table. I do this on my home server's 18G HD: This crossed my mind, but I decided against it as it would have meant re-slicing the disk, which I'm not sure I could have done without reinstalling. I just divided my free disk space into two rather than three as I had planned. Is this ever an issue for anyone with very, very large disks or arrays where a large number of logical filesystems might be desired? If my math is right, there's a limit of 24 filesystems per disk, which is really only 20 if you exclude /, swap, /var, and /usr. I'm not sure why it would be necessary or desirable to divide a disk into more filesystems than that, but it does seem like it would be annoying if there was no other way to atomically divide the disk (eg, large array). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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