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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:36:30 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted?
Message-ID:  <20061020000630.GK96445@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan>
References:  <fda61bb50610191629j5bdf49derb4d6d2b98790b280@mail.gmail.com> <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan>

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On Friday, 20 October 2006 at  1:48:35 +0200, Joerg Pernfuss wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:29:07 -0300, Agus <agus.262@gmail.com> 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?
>
> a-h are possible, yes, but b is usually used for swap and c is
> reserved "for internal use".

Specifically, it represents the entire partition.

> 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

This is the cleanest method, if you really have to create that many
partitions.

Greg
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