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Date:      Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:31:08 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> .. I do FreeBSD installs on 1GB flash disks. You know, so I don't have
> to nuke the windows install. Just so I can test out things. :)
>
> If people would like to see a more detailed partition editor, please
> supply patches to bsdinstall to do so. :-)
> I'd love to have multiple options - "use all for one partition", "do
> sysinstall-style auto partitioning".
> This is much more fun with GPT partitions where there's no 6 slice limit, right?

MBR has a 4 slice limit. 6 would have been very nice!

GPT allows 256 partitions.  Whee! My current system disk has 7 real partitions.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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