Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:36:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted? Message-ID: <20061020000630.GK96445@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan> References: <fda61bb50610191629j5bdf49derb4d6d2b98790b280@mail.gmail.com> <20061020014835.6d6280dd@loki.starkstrom.lan>
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--0OMWfJhzSPULbgPV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 20 October 2006 at 1:48:35 +0200, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:29:07 -0300, Agus <agus.262@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all. I was reading the installation of freebsd and get that only >> partitions, sorry, labels a to h are allowed. is this so? > > a-h are possible, yes, but b is usually used for swap and c is > reserved "for internal use". Specifically, it represents the entire partition. > Basically, now you have 4 options: > - rework your partiotion sheme to work with these limits > - create two slices on the disk, giving you *s1[adefgh] and > *s2[adefgh] to work with This is the cleanest method, if you really have to create that many partitions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0OMWfJhzSPULbgPV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFOBMGIubykFB6QiMRAmjDAKClasB/aaNIy2XUtgtn1+9BsyAO2wCfdVS1 qhRWIqMKVHBEOO87ofyrmFk= =l5WM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OMWfJhzSPULbgPV--
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