From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 23:49:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F9A16A412 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:49:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED57343D75 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:49:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: from loki.starkstrom.lan (p549CF836.dip.t-dialin.net [84.156.248.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE08A42410B for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:49:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:48:35 +0200 From: Joerg Pernfuss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.3 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_nlbW4rNmuxP/K6VZg5HM9jB"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Subject: Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted? 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, 19 Oct 2006 23:49:13 -0000 --Sig_nlbW4rNmuxP/K6VZg5HM9jB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:29:07 -0300 Agus wrote: > Hi all. I was reading the installation of freebsd and get that only > partitions, sorry, labels a to h are allowed. is this so? >=20 > So if i want to have the following scheme: > / > /home > /usr > /usr/local > /tmp > /var > /var/log > /homeb a-h are possible, yes, but b is usually used for swap and c is reserved "for internal use". You shouldn't change it unless you need a reliable way to lose data, in which case it can be quite handy. That leaves you a,d,e,f,g and h. Basically, now you have 4 options: - rework your partiotion sheme to work with these limits - create two slices on the disk, giving you *s1[adefgh] and *s2[adefgh] to work with - nest the disklabels (aparently possible). You'll end up with (for example) da0[adefg] and da0h[adefgh]. Yes, this is ugly. - try using gpt partitions (you can't boot from them afaik and there might be more limitations, i don't know) Joerg --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | --Sig_nlbW4rNmuxP/K6VZg5HM9jB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFOA7TH31s/bvKrSQRAghjAJ4rR/VNIDaH1NQdMjAPh0kgrWWugwCdGKaG 88X1iuZkYOrGAJAXW6ryYV8= =7Hse -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_nlbW4rNmuxP/K6VZg5HM9jB--