Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:44:52 +0200 From: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: More than 8 partitions Message-ID: <y2z8f82c35c1004301044pd7168618qa23eb66438350a5d@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # size offset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: "line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i" I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like "gpart: index '9': No space left on device" I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? Regards, Jon
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