From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 14:47:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0827E37B401 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:47:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:45:32 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0LMlMK31344; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:47:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:47:22 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Warner Losh , Shawn Barnhart , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limit on the number of disklabel entries? Message-ID: <20010121144722.V10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200101212212.f0LMCR902132@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@LUCIDA.CA on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:29:09PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:29:09PM -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > ... > : It used to be for the whole whole disk. > > Ahh.. > > : : Also, "e" is "the whole disk within slice 'c'" on a secondary disk? At > : : least that's what mine defaulted to when i installed a second drive... > : > : No. THat's not right. > > According to sysinstall it is: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 254063 29232 219750 12% / > /dev/da0s1e 254063 3001 245981 1% /var > /dev/da0s1f 7085237 2788656 4154877 40% /usr > /dev/da1s1e 17376099 8328598 8699980 49% /misc > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Brand new system, installed 3 days ago, 4.2-RELEASE. Creating the > partition on the newly sliced da1 via sysinstall put it on "e". $ disklabel da1s1 I believe sysinstall(8) starts lettering any non-root partions you add to a disk at 'e.' If you had made two partitions to cut up da1s1, they would have been e and f. I started to look at the code to double-check... but then I came to my senses. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message