From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 17:26:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9342137B416 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:26:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AD82B786E4; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:56:22 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:56:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Eugene Panchenko Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More than 6 partitions on one slice? Message-ID: <20011207115622.A57799@monorchid.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 7 December 2001 at 7:06:01 +0600, Eugene Panchenko wrote: > Hi! > > I've never had a need before, but I thought that there are > only a-h partitions, that is, 6 (b and c are not quite > legal) of them can be on a slice. Is this true? Is there > any way to increase this limit? Thank you for your help! Well, I have my doubts that you have a need now, but firstly you can use b if you want, and if that's not enough (which it surely is), and if you're using a PC, you can create 4 slices in Microsoft partitions and put 7 partitions in each, for a total of 28 partitions. If you think even that isn't enough, you can make the whole disk a Vinum drive and create as many volumes as you like. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message