From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 20:59:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CD637B4CF for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA12749; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:59:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28469; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:59:15 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: Phil Homewood Cc: FreeBSD , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:51:30 +1000. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:59:15 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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