From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 22:32:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C611065674 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13048FC18 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:32:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so785241bwz.43 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:32:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gC/+3v0G0QK0oxVLidNqQ57vI4U8IdIXsuqq/xcAsCA=; b=olb1ofvkUZ+mhdmW9DZg48rHWJ/bfKcfR3yADW41yq/Y8lduULnzsfKGoBe/SHm1ik pExdLphlIA53lLyk0bslFCdRfUI+egA1k1FHgegKtmp9f5trDzozVkExsXir1zL851/U c9LbsL2ZVZCsjfwGl/vTdx8I++mtCb9ee5gm4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VV/n2KtAq5K5NsjYTCAm1ebWGiXWe4lVSi0tnLkBi9RtUYWrHnyqDb+jHN/A4jNhON RIPjr+wTMU3Q2vtCwEI8LT+ajid9cK3twrshpiQm4fiLx3mEV8pXvlLBV87unR/yZmdy aFeszZozt7o0O8ajghtEhjze81oxKdjqnp+sw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.138.134 with SMTP id p6mr79747hbp.0.1240524650783; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:10:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090423204247.GA44182@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <714DFCFC-9547-497D-A2C7-0BA10B39B901@mac.com> <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> <20090423204247.GA44182@phenom.cordula.ws> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:50 +0200 Message-ID: <3a142e750904231510q758770cev768c4e3e2cd80acb@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: cpghost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Michael David Crawford Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:32:06 -0000 On 4/23/09, cpghost wrote: > 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, That problem is fixed in 8.0 with introducion of gpart(8) > 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 > > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Paul