Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 03:06:56 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> Cc: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions Message-ID: <20100501030656.2c06111e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <w2i8f82c35c1004301753k318247b1kc3165f1fb532af15@mail.gmail.com> References: <y2z8f82c35c1004301044pd7168618qa23eb66438350a5d@mail.gmail.com> <o2w286906751004301120rb543074bm219c0e7fe0cea521@mail.gmail.com> <u2h8f82c35c1004301133w7cb30088l6cee840225cff116@mail.gmail.com> <r2p8f82c35c1004301658rf0c99886yeb6d87bededde2fa@mail.gmail.com> <q2kd74eb87c1004301711s9f91a16ez8d30f183b987a589@mail.gmail.com> <w2i8f82c35c1004301753k318247b1kc3165f1fb532af15@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> wrote: > But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel > (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: > #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 > which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be > possible. Obviously, this refers to the possible letters a, b, c, ..., z as partition identifiers instead of numerical ones (e. g. ad0p7). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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