From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 13:41:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC5F37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:41:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0LLfS902012; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:41:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101212141.f0LLfS902012@harmony.village.org> To: "Shawn Barnhart" Subject: Re: Limit on the number of disklabel entries? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:57:04 CST." <006301c0830a$65959f70$b8209fc0@marlowe> References: <006301c0830a$65959f70$b8209fc0@marlowe> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:41:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <006301c0830a$65959f70$b8209fc0@marlowe> "Shawn Barnhart" writes: : Is there a hard limit on the number of disk label entries? Yes. a-h is all you get. On boot disks, a is /, b is swap. On all disks 'c' is the whole disk (too many things break when you ignore this rule). : I have a disk slice defined with partitions a-h and would like to an 'i' : entry to finish off the disk space. Is this not permitted? When I try to : create the device, I get the following error: Nope. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message