From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 12: 7: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178BB37B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19053; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:05:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00121; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:05:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14874.54687.892854.894715@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:05:51 -0700 (MST) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: FreeBSD , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel In-Reply-To: References: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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. I think 'c' is reserved to be the disk. If nothing else, it *must* start at the beginning of the disk. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message