From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 00:06:44 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 CB10316A403 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:06:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7F543D67 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:06:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2AB1330A4; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:36:30 +0930 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 99D469C296; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:36:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:36:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joerg Pernfuss Message-ID: <20061020000630.GK96445@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OMWfJhzSPULbgPV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:06:44 -0000 --0OMWfJhzSPULbgPV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 20 October 2006 at 1:48:35 +0200, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: > 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? > > 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0OMWfJhzSPULbgPV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFOBMGIubykFB6QiMRAmjDAKClasB/aaNIy2XUtgtn1+9BsyAO2wCfdVS1 qhRWIqMKVHBEOO87ofyrmFk= =l5WM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OMWfJhzSPULbgPV--