From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 0:23: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.uvd.chel.su (uvd.chel.su [195.54.2.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C31B37B994 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lw@pd.chel.ru) Received: from isergeya.uvd.chel.su (isergeya.uvd.chel.su [192.168.200.123]) by relay.uvd.chel.su (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5417662D38; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:22:51 +0600 (YEKST) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:22:19 +0500 From: "Sergey A. Ivanov" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: "Sergey A. Ivanov" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <816676737.20000801132219@pd.chel.ru> To: Gregory Bond Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: disk partition limits In-reply-To: <200008010625.QAA12412@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <200008010625.QAA12412@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message