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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions
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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).



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