From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 09:28:46 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 C021937B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C2543F75 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:28:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2QHSfVT022712 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:28:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:28:45 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030326 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-25.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,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 17:28:47 -0000 Hi Eric, >> 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. I remember a discussion about this issue. IIRC some other BSD allow 16 partitions per slice, but for FreeBSD 8 partitions is a kernel limit, which would take a significant amount of work to change. Nobody did this until now, so the restriction is still valid. With a maximum of four slices on PCs you can create up to 28 partitions, which should be sufficient for a disk. I once tried to use (in DOS-terms) logical partitions within an extended partition. This is possible, if you do the math and creation of partition tables by hand, but is not supported by the FreBSD tools. So you can even have more FreeBSD partitions than 28, if you really need so. Ciao Siegbert