Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:20:28 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name Message-ID: <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de>
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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? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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