Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:36:37 +0600 From: "Eugene Panchenko" <replicator@ngs.ru> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More than 6 partitions on one slice? Message-ID: <web-6612490@intranet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011207131850.F57799@monorchid.lemis.com>
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> > I'm afraid that I can't use b since it's my swap...
>
> OK, but in general this works.
Oh, no doubt, I was speaking only for my case...
> > > if you're using a PC, you can create 4 slices in
> > > Microsoft partitions
> >
> > I've already have used up all 4 partitions for QNX,
> > NetBSD, MSDOS622 (yeah, I admit), and, of course,
> > FreeBSD :)
>
> OK, but in general this works.
Same thing here ;-)
> There are a large number of reasons why this won't work.
> The most obvious one is the question of device nodes:
> the minor number only has three bits for the partition
> number, so it wouldn't work. You'd be better off with
> the Vinum solution.
:-(( But your explanation is very good, thanks!..
> I still have difficulty believing you need this many
> partitions.
The reason is quite simple, consider my current layout:
/ a
swap b
c
/var/ftp d /var e /tmp f
/usr g
/home h
And I have about 50G (out of 80G) left. I'd like to use
it for, say, /mnt/media, or something like that. I also
want to mount /var/www separately -- so much easier for
doing backups (oh I *love* dump/restore ;-))
Thanks again!!!
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