From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 00:11:25 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 4BD32106566C for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 00:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB3A8FC1D for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 00:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so203338ewy.33 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:11:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.38.5 with SMTP id z5mr56576ebd.36.1272672678005; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.30.20 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:11:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.203.46.64] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 02:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Jon Theil Nielsen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: 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: Sat, 01 May 2010 00:11:25 -0000 On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen 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. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/