From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 00:30:22 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 C8A7816A4B3; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:30:22 +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 3C37343D5E; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:30:13 +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 6E6A242410B; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:30:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:29:38 +0200 From: Joerg Pernfuss To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Message-ID: <20061020022938.709fda55@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061020000630.GK96445@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan> <20061020000630.GK96445@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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_3u0Ao08yJUmEkox0=q4pm3D"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 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 00:30:22 -0000 --Sig_3u0Ao08yJUmEkox0=q4pm3D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:36:30 +0930 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > a-h are possible, yes, but b is usually used for swap and c is > > reserved "for internal use". >=20 > Specifically, it represents the entire partition. Yes, of course. But "stay away from it, internal use only, creates bad breath and kills your firstborn child" tends to get the point across faster :) There is enough time to delve into the depths of disklabels later on. > > - create two slices on the disk, giving you *s1[adefgh] and > > *s2[adefgh] to work with >=20 > This is the cleanest method, if you really have to create that many > partitions. By far. I should have pointed that out more clearly, thanks. 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_3u0Ao08yJUmEkox0=q4pm3D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFOBhyH31s/bvKrSQRAjz9AJ9G+0BHiv14JAw/wE2zAtFVn9JCxQCcCmQ9 xyJn/zRJzS2ZPYVDlMMQMTc= =zqqc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_3u0Ao08yJUmEkox0=q4pm3D--