Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:49:33 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <Mutt.19970111124933.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <E0viwgc-0001BA-00@rover.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Jan 10, 1997 23:12:58 -0700 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> <E0viwgc-0001BA-00@rover.village.org>
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As Warner Losh wrote: > Ollivier Robert writes: > : 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... Arrgh! Please, don't start to confuse the names here, too! But yes, you can have multiple slices with up to 7 partitions each. > When OpenBSD bumped their stuff from 8 to 16 partitions, there were > relatively few things that broke and needed fixing. What about backwards-compatibility to themselves? I think that's the biggest issue. > I thought you could have up to four slices, not 7. Does FreeBSD grok > extended partitions now? Uh-oh, Warner. :-) That's possible since FreeBSD 2.0.5. I think you can have 32 slices or so (that's more than DOS can have, it has only 26 drive letters :-). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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