Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:28:31 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Agus <agus.262@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted? Message-ID: <20061020012831.GB62787@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <fda61bb50610191629j5bdf49derb4d6d2b98790b280@mail.gmail.com> References: <fda61bb50610191629j5bdf49derb4d6d2b98790b280@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:29:07PM -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? > > So if i want to have the following scheme: > / > /home > /usr > /usr/local > /tmp > /var > /var/log > /homeb > > Can i make this? cause i tried, but i get an X in the label... The first question is, do you have any other OSen like MS-Win or possibly a diagnostic utility put there by a vendor using up a primary slice or two? The primary divisions of a disk in FreeBSD are the slices (unless you make one of those 'dangerously dedicated disks' which you don't really want to do). The slices are then [sub]divided in to partitions. There can be up to 4 primary slices numbered 1..4 and each slice can be divided in up to 8 partitions labeled a..h - with partition 'c' reserved to describe the whole slice and usually partition 'b' used for swap. So, effectively there are up to 6 partitions allowed per slice. So, if you haven't already used up all 4 slices, then just make more than 1 slice at the fdisk stage and divide each up with enough partitions to suit your situations. ////jerry > > Thanx guys.... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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