Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:59:15 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:51:30 %2B1000.
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> Another question: Where does that "8" limit come from? I /know/ I've > used >8 partitions many years ago... The limit of 8 goes _way way_ back - certainly to V7 Unix, probably to V6. We're talking mid-70s here. When all you have is a 5Mb drive, you don't need more than 8 partitions! I know of no Unix variant with more than 8 partitions/ disk - and it has been a problem for us on our Solaris systems. > > One more gripe: why was s1 chosen to be the first logical slice and not > > s0? Did we computer scientists start counting with 1 by accident? > > That's mystified me, too. I assume to be compatible with MS-DOS fdisk which calls them 1-4. Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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