Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:13:13 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly Message-ID: <20060729141313.GA43548@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <200607282236.k6SMaRlj089446@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> <20060727202528.GA14954@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <200607282236.k6SMaRlj089446@apollo.backplane.com>
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* Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com) wrote: > felt that 8 partitions is restrictive. My main home server has 10 > and the main DragonFly box has 11. > > There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO* have > four slices to play with. You can put a disklabel with 8 partitions > in it on each one (for 32 total). It isn't as convenient, but it does > work. About `lack' of partitions - don't forget that labels can be nested. Just do `bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s1e` - you'll get /dev/ad0s1ea. -- Best regards, Dmitry mailto:amdmi3@mail.ru
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