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Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 02:11:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions
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On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? =A0Just a matter =
of
> interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know.

Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(=
8)
supports only 8 partitions (including the whole disk):

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=3Ddisklabel&sektion=3D8

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dbsdlabel&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D0=
&manpath=3DFreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=3Dhtml

-cpghost.

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