From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 23 23:42:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA07151 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA07146 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA04690; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:12:23 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970924161223.09422@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:12:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem Limits References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 10:36:45PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 10:36:45PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > >> What is the most filesystems that you can put on a single physical IDE >> drive and how? > > I can't find any hard limits poking through the man pages, but I suppose > you get into trouble when you hit partition 'z'. Having a lot of > filesystems is impractical to deal with, since you have to mount them all > to use them. There are a maxiumum of eight slices, 'a' to 'h'. >From disklabel(5): #define MAXPARTITIONS 8 'c' is special: it represents the whole partition. You can have up to four (Microsoft) partitions per disk. I've never tried it, but it looks as if you should be able to access slices in each partition. This would give you 28 slices. I can't imagine what you'd want to do that for. Greg