From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 21:11:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA03234 for current-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:11:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA03217 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:11:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 0.56 #1) id E0vjICa-00032J-00; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 22:11:24 -0700 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:49:33 +0100." References: <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 22:11:24 -0700 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message 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