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To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] 
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 23:12:58 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Mutt.19970111011604.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Ollivier Robert writes:
: 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...

When OpenBSD bumped their stuff from 8 to 16 partitions, there were
relatively few things that broke and needed fixing.

I thought you could have up to four slices, not 7.  Does FreeBSD grok
extended partitions now?

Warner