From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 11:23:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB9237B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:23:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA35478; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:23:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: FreeBSD Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel References: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Nov 2000 20:23:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: FreeBSD's message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:58:50 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD writes: > The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ... > disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't. Six (a, d, e, f, g, h) plus swap (b), and there's nothing that says b has to be a swap partition, so make that seven. There's nothing that says a swap partition has to be partition b either, BTW. Technically, you can use c as well, but that's playing with fire. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message