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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 1997 22:11:24 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] 
Message-ID:  <E0vjICa-00032J-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:49:33 %2B0100." <Mutt.19970111124933.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> 
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In message <Mutt.19970111124933.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch writes:
: What about backwards-compatibility to themselves?  I think that's
: the biggest issue.

I believe they just did it since they hadn't done a release at that
stage yet.  They also bumbed the, to use the right FreeBSD term, slice
code from a5 to a6 to denote new sytle systems.  I'm given to believe
that they support but, but haven't tried anything but all new since
the change happened before I had a bootable kernel for my MIPS PC.

: > 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 :-).

Cool.  Way to go Bruce!  2.0.5 was the first release to have slices,
if I recall, since I had to reslice and repartion my system when I
made the 2.0 -> 2.1 upgrade (I skipped 2.0.5 for a variety of
reasons).

Warner



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