From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 17:44:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA17456 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:44:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA17451 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:44:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA21302; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:33:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701110133.SAA21302@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:33:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ollivier Robert" at Jan 11, 97 01:16:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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... DOS partiton tables are limited to 8G, total, because of C/H/S limitations. Equalized, this is 2G total per primary, and ~512M per secondary. This is fine, as long as you are using small drives and breaking them up (probably breaking them up more than they should be). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.