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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: imp@village.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping]
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>I thought you could have up to four slices, not 7.  Does FreeBSD grok
>extended partitions now?

You can have up to 30 slices.  FreeBSD has grokked extended partitions
since 2.0.5.

Bruce