Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 01:58:07 +0200 From: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fwd: More than 8 partitions Message-ID: <r2p8f82c35c1004301658rf0c99886yeb6d87bededde2fa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <u2h8f82c35c1004301133w7cb30088l6cee840225cff116@mail.gmail.com> References: <y2z8f82c35c1004301044pd7168618qa23eb66438350a5d@mail.gmail.com> <o2w286906751004301120rb543074bm219c0e7fe0cea521@mail.gmail.com> <u2h8f82c35c1004301133w7cb30088l6cee840225cff116@mail.gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares <amijaresp@gmail.com> 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares <amijaresp@gmail.com> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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. > > > > You should create a new slice (da0s3) and then create new partitions > on it or use the whole slice (ad0s3c). > > Regards > > > Alberto Mijares > Thanks Alberto So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. The next problem is that i made fdisk create the two slices covering all the space of the disk. Can I somehow - using FreeBSD tools - shrink the size of da0s2 without data loss? Regards, Jon - reposting this to the list...
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