From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 1:35:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-5-187.zoominternet.net [24.154.5.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C89A37B512 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 01:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@mail.zbzoom.net) Received: from mail.zbzoom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.zbzoom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA74690 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 04:25:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@mail.zbzoom.net) Message-ID: <39868976.58130DE2@mail.zbzoom.net> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 04:25:26 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net Organization: Western Pennsylvania Pizza Disposal Unit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partition limits References: <200008010625.QAA12412@lightning.itga.com.au> <816676737.20000801132219@pd.chel.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message