Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:50:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "David J. Kanter" <david.kanter@mindspring.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max partitions per slice Message-ID: <14799.22594.938807.141382@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <99824587@toto.iv>
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David J. Kanter writes: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:01:35PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Not realizing that you've got all 8 partions. They're a-h. If you need > > to add another file system, you're going to have to point the c > > partition at it. > I was under the impression that the "c" should be left alone. So you're > saying it's OK to point c to another slice? What are the ramification of > losing the "c"? People who expect that it will point at the entire disk will be surprised. The only use I've ever seen made of the c partition being the entire disk is to make image backups from one drive to another. If I remember right, those were rm03s, at about 80meg each. The pack was removable, so we kept three circulating through each drive (todays, yesterdays, and tomorrows ;-). Of course, I've never seen anyone who needed more than 7 active partitions, so I've not seen it done. On the other hand, I would have said the same thing about the "a" partition being root until last week. I put root on a c partition (didn't want to resize a to be the whole slice) and grub refused to boot the disk. So if you do it and something breaks, let us know! Oh yeah - if you really need this and c doesn't work, and can free up a slice, you can use partitions from other slices. The "c-partition root" used the whole slice for data, and "borrowed" another FreeBSD install's swap from a different partition. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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