From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 01:50:54 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 3BD03106564A for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 01:50:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jontheil@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80C48FC1A for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 01:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so786459fxm.13 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:50:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=235CLpTiM0mfNjMZwKmyFSMvBDFS1rfyoVOgUIayODo=; b=U5udA4N6n1LbarhPVKpLthkIQd9syw7glYzcHblTCtAaGDJFdfn5m4F3nKF7TT7NOu k1dzPsChFPUSRnR4UDBZZWVplp01K2Hs5mdvxLI47p3/B/NeRjXUmPTXAEwX61XdKWdB N+FRdciF3ougZSNArVTogQT0CNJy5gSN/SAkw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=I/Jh9hqVlYJgam3FSstaeWXlBf7U4RK1tNdpQxJ5zrEqrClWzH/AQQoH8ddAb/vbR/ ZrMRavxVkpQaXEXzP3JCvJ30//IdqKqXzWidg5BDWfIJWXqwjrjyjUDh8hEQO/pKhbBa sYi9Vu8NHdsUTblph/UQ8TpzgNQToQnu/xEAU= Received: by 10.223.92.152 with SMTP id r24mr1773624fam.74.1272678643142; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:50:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.68 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:50:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100501030656.2c06111e.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100501030656.2c06111e.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Jon Theil Nielsen Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 03:50:23 +0200 Message-ID: To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "C. P. Ghost" , 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 01:50:54 -0000 2010/5/1 Polytropon > On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen > 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, ... > Sure. It could be so. All I know is that the bdslabel error message tells me that I can't add a label outside the range a-h. And I must admit that I can't find any official documentation saying that I should be able to do so. I guess it has been the intention, but that it hasn't been implemented (yet). Regards, Jon