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Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > :
> > :On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:49:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > :> 		We do not have enough partition id's to make a separate
> > :> 		/usr/local.
> > :
> > :Has anyone considered raising the max number of partitions from 8 to 16
> > :as OpenBSD did years ago?
> >
> >     Oh, by the way... there is actually a way you can bump up the number
> >     of partitions.  What you do is split the disk up into multiple slices.
> >     We have 4, after all.  You can then disklabel each one.

We have 30.  More would require much the same minor number surgery as more
partitions.

> This works on x86 but not on alpha which does not use slices.

If so, then this is a bug on alphas.  Slices are not machine-dependent,
except possibily ones that you want to boot from.

Bruce


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