Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 08:50:27 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions Message-ID: <1272667827.27963.34.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <y2z8f82c35c1004301044pd7168618qa23eb66438350a5d@mail.gmail.com> References: <y2z8f82c35c1004301044pd7168618qa23eb66438350a5d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > Hi > > I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot > with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall > with 7 partitions: > > /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) > /dev/da0s2b (swap) > /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for > backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. > If i create a file for bsdlabel like > > # size offset fstype > i: * 0 4.2BSD > > I get the following error message: "line 2: partition name out of range a-h: > i" > I have also tried with gpart: > > gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 > > I get something like "gpart: index '9': No space left on device" > > I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but > then I don't know how to do. > Any ideas? Use vinum - thats what I needed to do. Mind I had around 15 partitions to work out so it is effective...
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