Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:25:04 -0500 From: Mak Kolybabi <mak@kolybabi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partions per slice limitation removed? Message-ID: <20090813222501.GB29899@brisbane.nepharia.org>
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On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: > I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no > longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and > reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support > it. Was I dreaming? (Forgot to send this reply to the list the first time, not just the OP.) No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: "Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions." [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=174501 -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) <mak@kolybabi.com> () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions
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