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From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly
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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.

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 Dmitry                          mailto:amdmi3@mail.ru