Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:42:47 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? Message-ID: <20090423204247.GA44182@phenom.cordula.ws> In-Reply-To: <49F01DD6.6070406@prgmr.com> References: <714DFCFC-9547-497D-A2C7-0BA10B39B901@mac.com> <49EF82B2.2040807@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904222316130.3543@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <49EF98C6.2060902@virtualhost.nl> <49EFA169.4050903@otenet.gr> <20090423084637.eb58cbe1.freebsd@edvax.de> <49F01208.2080705@otenet.gr> <20090423090727.c3460e7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <49F01C67.30205@otenet.gr> <49F01DD6.6070406@prgmr.com>
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:50:46AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote:
> The partitioner will allow you to create more partitions than the
> FreeBSD partition table will allow. Rather than giving it the name of a
> special file in the /dev/directory, it will name it just "X". You can
> create as many partitions named "X" as you like.
>
> Then the newfs will fail.
>
> I experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug
> report about it.
Yes, this is a long standing problem. On one or both of {Open,Net}BSD,
the number of possible partitions per slice is higher. I'd really wish
FreeBSD's bsdlabel(8) would allow for more partitions. The problem
here is not with sysinstall though. From bsdlabel(8):
The partition table can have up to 8 entries. It contains the following
information:
# The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to
`h'. By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the
entire disk.
Take away 'b' for swap, and 'c' for the whole disk, you can only
use 6 partitions per slice (including the root partition) on the
bootable slice. That's clearly not enough, esp. on big disks, and
with complex setups. :-(
> Mike
> --
> Michael David Crawford
> mdc@prgmr.com
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