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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:45:30 -0800
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Subject: Re: Changed names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of
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On Dec 26, 2008, at 0:29, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>  
wrote:

> In message <20081226080146.GB25406@dragon.NUXI.org>, "David O'Brien"  
> writes:
>
>>> With flattening, you have ad0sX, with X from 1 to many.
>>> Without flattening you get ad0sX[sY...], with X and Y
>>> from 1 to 4.
>
> That is wrong.
>
> Extended FAT partitions are a linked list and you can have have
> as many partitions as you like.

I thought 4 primary and 4 secondary dos slices were the limit on a  
standard   configuration...