Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:36:06 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: resize a FreeBSD slice on a hard drive in a PPC Mac? Message-ID: <78143EEB-09F8-4E76-AD25-F90F7B2F7993@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110320203235.b8294b8d.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20110320113233.86992c04.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <0EF02E68-7815-46D4-974F-DB82E01572B7@gmail.com> <20110320192020.9273e00d.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20110320203235.b8294b8d.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Mar 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:20:20 +0100 > Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:20:37 -0400 >> Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Be careful, by default APM will only support 8 partitions. So if >>> you >>> need more than 8 in total you'll need to start over. >> >> Really? I didn't know that. Thanks! > > This[1] references seems to indicate that APm should support as many > partitions as one would > want: "APM can describe as many partitions as required, whereas DOS > is limited to 4 primary partitions." > Which way is correct? > References: > 1) http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.23/23.03/APMtoGPT/index.html > -- > Torfinn It can, but from my experience, it only does it in groups of 8, and is statically allocated. It doesn't support allocating more partitions dynamically like the extended partition table with MBR, so you have to decide how many up front you want. - Justin
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