From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 6 14:20:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2B537B418 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:20:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.132.32.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.132.32] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161EZw-0003X0-00; Tue, 06 Nov 2001 14:20:21 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA6MJuR02422; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:19:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:19:56 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Steve Austin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating a disk partition Message-ID: <20011106141956.D386@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011106195816.56982.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011106195816.56982.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com>; from indydog125@yahoo.com on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:58:16AM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:58:16AM -0800, Steve Austin wrote: > I thought I was being smart by not allocating all of > a 20Gb drive. I used 9Gb in 6 different partitions - > (7 including swap). These were assigned on > installation > as partitions a, d, e, f, g & h (and of course, swap). > > > I figured that when I needed more space in the future, > I would create another partition, and mount it under > some portion of the file system where needed. You can only have 8 partitions (a-h) in a slice. Make a new slice. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message