From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 23:58:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7802A1065673 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:58:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jontheil@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BFF8FC1B for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so738139fxm.13 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=os7lR6NdUH7MVHDE8dFQri1jEm+i28VrFPWoAL9XnAo=; b=BteibYYxj0dnCtPQEgQ2zuSRKpou0kED2MF6lurxt9Cq+lbxWbnwIYxiN5MXQbK/ZD gJh/FkyFL4+qtXQ4GpIqioRzsrL7767LHMz1wuQCK23j8k24mNvozzDR1ezJhI5Pg65I C3UomEkU1VD1s+nAvu5PGBl8T46faGEFvVM4U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=RChWNZoWYN13ePw4ZLb/sYUGApLZVLb0uCNjNJHxFo7YrM+WLVpgF26UIAL6M8qmaS R8EaYdDurDC2HrGPhmewwxT+JAOHsjUS14qELJjWDehh9tJ9hTzQhIURhJnqoZeJMEeh 30F0rOTt7agTu+Z4wUjhtzlprxhm+KaL54l5A= Received: by 10.223.26.69 with SMTP id d5mr1767890fac.20.1272671907141; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.68 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:58:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Jon Theil Nielsen Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 01:58:07 +0200 Message-ID: To: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Fwd: More than 8 partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:58:37 -0000 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jon Theil Nielsen Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares 2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen > 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...