Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:22:19 +0500 From: "Sergey A. Ivanov" <lw@pd.chel.ru> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: disk partition limits Message-ID: <816676737.20000801132219@pd.chel.ru> In-Reply-To: <200008010625.QAA12412@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <200008010625.QAA12412@lightning.itga.com.au>
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Hello Gregory,
Tuesday, August 01, 2000, 11:25:28 AM, you wrote:
>> Are there any limits for size/quantity of partitions at freebsd
>> slice?
GB> 4 slices per disk, 8 partitions per slice (by convention, partition "c" covers
GB> the whole disk so usually only 7 usable partitions).
GB> AFAIK FreeBSD cannot use the so-called "extended partitions" (i.e.
GB> slices-within-slices).
GB> If this is too restrictive for your purposes, use vinum to chop up a large
GB> partition into lots of little ones.
I'm tried create new partition on slice with >5Gb free space and failed.
Partition with 4096Mb was created successfully. Now i have 5
partitions on this slice and can't create new for rest 1+ Gb :(
Slice (as i can remember) is more than 8Gb, HDD is IBM SCSI 18Gb.
Best regards,
Sergey mailto:lw@pd.chel.ru
ICQ UIN: 49432691
http://lw.narod.ru
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