From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 18:20:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4D237B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpsgiken.alpsgiken.gr.jp (www.alpsgiken.gr.jp [210.166.150.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAAC43FBD for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joel@alpsgiken.alpsgiken.gr.jp) Received: from zz_radiant2 (www1.alpsgiken.gr.jp [61.114.244.165]) by alpsgiken.alpsgiken.gr.jp (8.9.1a/3.7W) with ESMTP id KAA23912; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:20:42 +0900 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:23:17 +0900 From: Joel Rees To: sweetleaf , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030620003223.H3717@njamn8or.no-ip.org> References: <20030620021533.48b3410c.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> <20030620003223.H3717@njamn8or.no-ip.org> Message-Id: <20030623101627.242F.JOEL@alpsgiken.gr.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.11 Subject: Re: how many partitions on a slice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:20:49 -0000 > FreeBSD has a maximum of 4 slices (BIOS or DOS partitions) > per disk, each of which can contain up to 8 partitions FYI, Lowell Gilbert told me that this limit of 8 freeBSD partitions to a BIOS slice is a compiled-in constant, appearing to imply that one could change the constant and re-compile. I haven't tried that yet, opting to experiment with openBSD for a while instead. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp