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Date:      Sat, 1 May 1999 02:44:04 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, nrahlstr@FreeBSD.ORG, sdn@slip.net
Subject:   Re: conf/10330: I can't create a 5th fdisk partition; I want to use the rest of my disk.
Message-ID:  <199904301644.CAA04008@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>State-Changed-By: nrahlstr
>State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 29 21:13:43 PDT 1999
>State-Changed-Why: 
>No 5th fdisk partition is possible.  Sorry.

Actually, about 4294967295 fdisk partitions are possible (on a 4GB or
larger disk).  FreeBSD's drivers only support the 4 primary partitions and
the first 26 logical drives within extended partitions.  FreeBSD's fdisk
and sysinstall only support the 4 primary partitions.

Bruce


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