From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 10:26:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from KIWI-Computer.com (kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DC937B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:26:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by KIWI-Computer.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA48985; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:23:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: FreeBSD Filter Message-Id: <200011201823.MAA48985@KIWI-Computer.com> Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <14873.24098.233002.62004@nomad.yogotech.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 20, 2000 10:23:46 am" To: Nate Williams Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:23:55 -0600 (CST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's not good enough. The PC architecture limits us to 4-total > partitions, which isn't good enough. It's not even good enough for M$, > so they invented 'extended partitions, which is a M$-only feature. Just because microsnot invented it doesn't mean they're the only ones using it. Linux does, and I'm sure others do too. --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy rick@kiwi-computer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message