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Date:      Sat, 1 May 2010 02:11:17 +0200
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil@gmail.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: More than 8 partitions
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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.

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