From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 31 23:25:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A00D37BDC3 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:25:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA40316; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:25:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12412; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:25:28 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200008010625.QAA12412@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: "Sergey A. Ivanov" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partition limits In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:15:35 +0500. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 16:25:28 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Are there any limits for size/quantity of partitions at freebsd > slice? 4 slices per disk, 8 partitions per slice (by convention, partition "c" covers the whole disk so usually only 7 usable partitions). AFAIK FreeBSD cannot use the so-called "extended partitions" (i.e. slices-within-slices). If this is too restrictive for your purposes, use vinum to chop up a large partition into lots of little ones. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message