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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jan 1997 01:26:01 +1100."
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:36:48 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199701111426.BAA03753@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>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.

each of which can contain 7 usable freebsd partitions --> 210 filesystems.

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