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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:23:17 +0900
From:      Joel Rees <joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp>
To:        sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how many partitions on a slice?
Message-ID:  <20030623101627.242F.JOEL@alpsgiken.gr.jp>
In-Reply-To: <20030620003223.H3717@njamn8or.no-ip.org>
References:  <20030620021533.48b3410c.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> <20030620003223.H3717@njamn8or.no-ip.org>

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>  FreeBSD has a maximum of 4 slices (BIOS or DOS partitions)
> per disk, each of which can contain up to 8 partitions

FYI, Lowell Gilbert told me that this limit of 8 freeBSD partitions to a
BIOS slice is a compiled-in constant, appearing to imply that one could
change the constant and re-compile. I haven't tried that yet, opting to
experiment with openBSD for a while instead.

-- 
Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group
Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan
http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp



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