Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:59:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: bugs@ns1.win.net (Mark Hittinger) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: why not 2+ freebsd partitions per disk? Message-ID: <199504020759.XAA01112@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504020338.WAA01108@ns1.win.net> from "Mark Hittinger" at Apr 1, 95 10:38:13 pm
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> > > Just a quick question - is there a technical reason why two or more freebsd > partitions per disk cannot be done? Or is it just some code that hasn't > been written yet? :-) Until just recently this was not possible due to the way that the disklabels worked. Since the slice code has gone in we now have support for more than 1 BSD disk label on a disk. This means each slice (we call DOS partitions slices to try and minimize the confusion with BSD partitions) of a disk can now have a BSD disk label. I do not know how well this has been tested, but you should be able to have 4 BSD slices on one physical disk. You will need to be running -current to do this. > Regards, > Mark Hittinger > bugs@win.net -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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