From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 14 10:47:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBE3106568B for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:47:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D6C8FC5B for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7EAntl6093417 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:49:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4A8540AD.6020700@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:47:09 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mak Kolybabi References: <20090813222501.GB29899@brisbane.nepharia.org> In-Reply-To: <20090813222501.GB29899@brisbane.nepharia.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partions per slice limitation removed? 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, 14 Aug 2009 10:47:15 -0000 Mak Kolybabi wrote: > On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no >> longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and >> reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support >> it. Was I dreaming? >> > > (Forgot to send this reply to the list the first time, not just the OP.) > > No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From > head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: > > "Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue > of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions." > > [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=174501 > > Indeed and from http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html (a reasonably complete list of whats comming in 8.0) it says bsdlabel gets extended to 26 partitions Status: Committed to -CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Author: Marcel Moolenaar web: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-December/084949.html bsdlabel is (finally!) extended to support more than 8 partitions. The new limit of 26 partitions comes from the number of lower-case letters. To make use of this change, GEOM_PART needs to be used instead of GEOM_BSD (this requires custom kernel configurations). Vince > -- > Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) > > > () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >