From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 09:20:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C8A37B405 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:20:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E565D43FB1 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:20:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2QHKY56000392; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:20:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:20:28 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Siegbert Baude References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-17.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:20:37 -0000 Siegbert Baude wrote: >> 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. Thanks Siegbert.. Do you have any idea why this limit would be placed? It seems like this is possibly a "backwards compatibility" limit. It would be nice if I could force it to use more partitions. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------