Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 02:00:01 +0200 From: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fwd: More than 8 partitions Message-ID: <v2z8f82c35c1004301700v909db43as6a305cb6ed7a55c9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <h2k8f82c35c1004301654g6fe9932u56ae8640c71093f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <y2z8f82c35c1004301044pd7168618qa23eb66438350a5d@mail.gmail.com> <1272667827.27963.34.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <h2k8f82c35c1004301654g6fe9932u56ae8640c71093f8@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/5/1 Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, 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. > > 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? > > Use vinum - thats what I needed to do. Mind I had around 15 partitions > to work out so it is effective... > > Maybe I should consider that too. But this installation is quite experimental, and I just thought that it would be a simple task to make a few extra partitions, since that was what I read about when 8.0 was released. But I haven't found any documentation on the issue. I guess I either have to use some non-FreeBSD tool to change the size of my slices or backup the installation to another drive, rerun fdisk etc., and copy the system back. 'Regards, Jon
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