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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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