From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 5 15:40:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD1737BB36 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA56574; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 18:39:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 18:39:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Cyrille Lefevre , "Sergey A. Ivanov" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partition limits In-Reply-To: <20000805152543.K66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: >On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 05:12:29PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> "Sergey A. Ivanov" writes: >> >> > Are there any limits for size/quantity of partitions at freebsd >> > slice? >> >> yes, 8 slices. OpenBSD allow 16 slices. don't know about NetBSD. > >ITYM, 8 partitions per slice with 7 usable (the 'c'-parition should >not be used for filesystem or swap). That is correct, and to answer the above question, NetBSD also uses 8 partitions per slice with the c partition being reserved. As far as I can tell one of the primary reasons for sticking with this scheme is that some platforms have firmware which look for information in 4.2BSD style partition schemes. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message