From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 1 07:56:17 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F679B3 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 07:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam.gh1986@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f171.google.com (mail-lb0-f171.google.com [209.85.217.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AC83C5 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 07:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f171.google.com with SMTP id v20so2363109lbc.2 for ; Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:56:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=OEtVIoH2arDEDyCaCyFJ1tIG/o7xOiTjMsUS00piMnc=; b=FgUEi7lR4FfBWskXJxchnvH+QNfWRo/pDCDTF1bliv8Ejrp1eNszFkj8F/xi3Gq3fo ebvmbqfNr/rUIfKNRItZ4uLe1u1n3x/qOw0Gebpxi/sZfn11opvVz9qQQ0i15mTi6RDI 9Izru1EUiQyFbnK5RBqILD8yCPLwJ33WJnx1q02N02qIRvZOHbtwDVr3+YqB+TF2RIOg Clq17KIhwAXX/x16kCgTvinMVQAsIV52gMgQQWKL4pihfQI4dvBSSgPMz9hbdmyNzL6q aNY5oBcAZLkulhKOx/5ObsnQRc5osPrWrr0KfuOzkVm9H4sTuBr/iOTTL/9Ihz5g7tux 73hw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.30.103 with SMTP id r7mr7215955lah.25.1370073374913; Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.218.8 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 00:56:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130601092111.8c1ad1c0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20130601092111.8c1ad1c0.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 12:26:14 +0430 Message-ID: Subject: Re: define more partitions in freebsd From: s m To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:56:17 -0000 thanks for your reply, it is a good news if i can define more partitions with gpart. names are not so important for me. if i can define more partitions with gpart, are these partitions work correctly? you know i wan to define a journal partition for each partition on my freebsd. so if i use these extra partition as journal provider, do they work correctly? and another question, how can i define more partitions with gpart? i searched and some people say to use "gpart -n 20". do you mean to use this command too? and my last question, some people say to change byte 0x28a of the disk from 0x08 to 0x14 (which 14 is the number of partitions). do you think it's a good idea and applicable solution? thanks for your attention On 6/1/13, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: >> hello all >> >> i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need >> partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions >> from a to h, not any more. > > That's correct and expected for the MBR partitioning approach > (which is considered "mostly outdated" today). > > > >> i checked FreeBSD handbook, but it doesn't say anything about defining >> more partitions. > > Because you _cannot_ define more partitions than up to 'h'. > This is a hard-defined limit of MBR-style partitions (as > they are initialized with bsdlabel). > > > >> my question is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for >> example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h, ad3s1i, ad3s1j, ...). > > You cannot. You need to use the GPT partitioning approach > and repartition your disk. With gpart, you can create more > than 'h' partitions, but the partitions will have different > names, such as ad3s1p1, ad3s1p2, ..., ad3s1p10, ad3s1p11, ... > and so on. > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >