Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 23:12:58 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <E0viwgc-0001BA-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:16:04 %2B0100." <Mutt.19970111011604.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <Mutt.19970111011604.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> <Mutt.19970109225450.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net> <Mutt.19970110203640.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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
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