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From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions
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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...