From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 16:41:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA13733 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:41:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA13720 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA10634 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:41:29 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id BAA08825 for FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:41:26 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id BAA04150; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:16:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:16:04 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] References: <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55.15 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2837 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Jan 10, 1997 20:36:40 +0100 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to J Wunsch: > Partition `d' is also available. By now, there's only space for 8 > partitions, and extending this will probably cause even more brokeness > than the recent utmp.h changes. :( One should be able to put a second partition (fdisk term) on a disk and then use up to 7 slices into that new partition... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #33: Sat Dec 21 12:57:17 CET 1996