Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200 From: Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> To: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions Message-ID: <w2i8f82c35c1004301753k318247b1kc3165f1fb532af15@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <q2kd74eb87c1004301711s9f91a16ez8d30f183b987a589@mail.gmail.com> References: <y2z8f82c35c1004301044pd7168618qa23eb66438350a5d@mail.gmail.com> <o2w286906751004301120rb543074bm219c0e7fe0cea521@mail.gmail.com> <u2h8f82c35c1004301133w7cb30088l6cee840225cff116@mail.gmail.com> <r2p8f82c35c1004301658rf0c99886yeb6d87bededde2fa@mail.gmail.com> <q2kd74eb87c1004301711s9f91a16ez8d30f183b987a589@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of > > interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. > > Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, > bsdlabel(8) > supports only 8 partitions (including the whole disk): > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8 > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html > > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ I am very far from being an expert on these issues. And this link is certainly not "documentation": http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible. Regards, Jon
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