From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 10:56:35 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 5AA0B37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:56:35 -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 0FED343F93 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:56:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1049136993.ad3fe2@mired.org) Received: (qmail 49306 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2003 18:56:33 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 2003 18:56:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16001.63456.589121.843443@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:56:32 -0600 To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <3E81F673.4040706@centtech.com> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> <3E81F673.4040706@centtech.com> 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: 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 18:56:36 -0000 In <3E81F673.4040706@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > [..snip..] > > 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. > Separating the 350Gb up into smaller chunks makes dividing the space for > different projects much easier. Also, this is a RAID 50, so I've got > the "multiple disk in a single partition" taken care of. Different projects is what directories are for - unless there are reasons to have a space firewall between them. In general, the reasons for creating partitions these days are administrative. Otherwise, you're just creating things that will run out of space quicker than having one big one. Have you thought about dividing the disks up into different RAID devices to mimic your administrative needs? http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.