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On 15.05.2008, at 19:09, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:36:06AM -0600, Carlo.Capponi@unibo.it  
> wrote:
>>
>> looks like I cannot create more than 8 partitions at boot time on a  
>> single
>> disk.
>> how to overcome this problem ?
>> thanks
>
> Use fdisk to make up to 4 slices on the disk; e.g. ad0 gets ad0s1 to  
> ad0s4.
> you can then create up to 6 usable partitions on each slice.
>
> Roland

if you are on 7.0 and your box is equipped for it (memory) you could -  
and probably should - give ZFS a try.
I use it w/o troubles and it really eliminates the partitioning (and  
other) hassles. Simply put: it is the next
big thing in storage ;-)

Have a look here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS

take care,
Robert