Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:33:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <199701110133.SAA21302@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970111011604.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Jan 11, 97 01:16:04 am
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> 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.
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