From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 4 21:19:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA19055 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:19:34 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA19045 ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:19:33 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA19935; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:18:54 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199506050418.VAA19935@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: More thoughts on the installer To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Jun 5, 95 12:10:31 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 831 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > * What's an 'X' partition? Extended? Why would that apply within a > > > FreeBSD slice? When I tried to make lots and lots of filesystems, > > > the installer hung after I filled all eight slots on the screen. > > > > ?? Not seen this! Will check. > > Still there last night. I think once you run out of partition > letters (after creating five filesystems, I think?), it starts using > "X" instead "sd0s1j" or whatever. X means "couldn't assign a name" which means that you're all out of partitions. You can have seven per slice: [abd-h] -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?