From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 09:53:53 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 655F237B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:53:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3673643F93 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:53:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1049133230.37f4bd@mired.org) Received: (qmail 10892 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2003 17:53:50 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 2003 17:53:50 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:53:49 -0600 To: Siegbert Baude In-Reply-To: <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.71 (Hoop, Jr.) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.6 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: Eric Anderson 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 17:53:54 -0000 In <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de>, Siegbert Baude typed: > With a maximum of four slices on PCs you can create up to 28 > partitions, which should be sufficient for a disk. You can put FreeBSD partitions in extended slices, so the upper limit is significantly higher than 28. > 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. No, you don't need to do anything by hand. Just disklabel /dev/amr0s5 and so on, and create the partitions in it. I will note that on 5.0-RELEASE, the extended slice devices didn't get created for me. Of course, one has to wonder why anyone needs as many as seven partitions on a single disk. It's far more common to want to go the other way, and have multiple disks in a single partition. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.