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From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning a big hard disk
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:

> Hello, i am trying to partition my 1.6TB scsi raid.
> The problem is that disklabel only support up to 8 partitions but i want
> more (about 30).
>
> Is there any way to do this ?
>
> Cheers,
> Karsten

Yes--you'll need to create additional BSD slices.

Cheers,

Viktor