From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 18: 2:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-065.telepath.com [216.14.2.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0290437B422 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6680 invoked by uid 100); 25 Sep 2000 01:01:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14798.41967.169521.451371@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:01:35 -0500 (CDT) To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max partitions per slice In-Reply-To: <20364942@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David J. Kanter writes: > I understand that the maximum number of partitions per slice is 8, but I > can't seem to get all 8. > > When I installed FreeBSD 4.1 RELEASE, I was only able to create this mouting > scheme: > > /dev/ad0s2a on / (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2d on /home (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2g on /tmp (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2e on /usr (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2h on /usr/src (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2f on /var (ufs, local) > > That's 7 to me (with swap...hmm, but with the all-encompassing "c" partition > that does bring everything to 8). When I tried creating other partitions, I > got an X next to them in disklabel. > > Is there something I'm doing wrong? Not realizing that you've got all 8 partions. They're a-h. If you need to add another file system, you're going to have to point the c partition at it.