From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 00:01:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA25946 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:01:34 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA25927 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:01:31 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA01112; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:59:35 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504020759.XAA01112@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: why not 2+ freebsd partitions per disk? To: bugs@ns1.win.net (Mark Hittinger) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:59:34 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504020338.WAA01108@ns1.win.net> from "Mark Hittinger" at Apr 1, 95 10:38:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 878 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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