From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 22 02:23:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA27790 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 02:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA27785 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 02:23:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA00464 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:23:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id LAA09192; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:12:53 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971122111253.HK34127@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:12:53 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NBQ: Why partitioning? (was: Re: Partitioning suggestions?) References: <199711180019.TAA01983@dyson.iquest.net> <199711180202.VAA04479@luomat.peak.org> <19971117192532.37475@micron.mini.net> <19971119193141.NY02422@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19971121002001.09565@keltia.freenix.fr> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19971121002001.09565@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Nov 21, 1997 00:20:01 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: > > I wished we would support 16 partition slots at least as an > > alternative to the backwards-compatible 8 slot model. > > Why not using a second FreeBSD slice ? I happen to hate slices, ya know? :-) I wanna be able to use my disk on any potential controller, disregarding any geometry hassles. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)