From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 22:14: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283CA37B43C for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:12:51 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8P5DtP62072; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:13:55 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Max partitions per slice Message-ID: <20000924221355.G59015@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20000924100235.A82162@freebsd.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000924100235.A82162@freebsd.mindspring.com>; from david.kanter@mindspring.com on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:02:35AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:02:35AM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > I understand that the maximum number of partitions per slice is 8, but I > can't seem to get all 8. > > When I installed FreeBSD 4.1 RELEASE, I was only able to create this mouting > scheme: > > /dev/ad0s2a on / (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2d on /home (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2g on /tmp (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2e on /usr (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2h on /usr/src (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s2f on /var (ufs, local) > > That's 7 to me (with swap...hmm, but with the all-encompassing "c" partition > that does bring everything to 8). When I tried creating other partitions, I > got an X next to them in disklabel. > > Is there something I'm doing wrong? Ummm... No. It seems you have answered your own question. You put filesystems on (1) a, (2) d, (3) e, (4) f, (5) g, and (6) h. You have one swap partition at (7) b and the (8) c partition is reserved for special use (representing the whole disk). Sounds like 8 to me. One way to "save" on partitions is to make /tmp a MFS and just add the space you reserved for it to the swap (b). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message