Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 04:25:26 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@mail.zbzoom.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partition limits Message-ID: <39868976.58130DE2@mail.zbzoom.net> References: <200008010625.QAA12412@lightning.itga.com.au> <816676737.20000801132219@pd.chel.ru>
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"Sergey A. Ivanov" wrote:
> 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).
As I wrote to Gregory, the "AFAIK" part isn't true. You
*can* create and use partitions in the "extended partition". I have two of them
mounted right now. :-)
> 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.
I don't know why this didn't work for you. Right now, My
/usr is 17.7GB, and /export is 16.7GB. There are 5GB free
on the disk in an unused FAT partition, just in case I need to
install "another" OS.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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