Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:18:42 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name Message-ID: <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com>
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> I'm running 4.8RC1, I have a ~345Gb drive (RAID), that I am partitioning > into 43Gb chunks (8 of them).. I'm using sysinstall.. on my last chunk, > it shows "X" as the partition name and the rest is ok. The other > partitions are amrd0s1e,f,g,h,a,b,d.. Am I out of "letters"? What > about "i"? What can I do to fix this? The partitions within a FreeBSD slice are numberd from a to h, where c is always reserved for the complete disk. So you will need two (or more) slices. Then create up to 7 (abdefgh) partitions within each slice. Ciao Siegbert
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