Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:41:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limit on the number of disklabel entries? Message-ID: <200101212141.f0LLfS902012@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:57:04 CST." <006301c0830a$65959f70$b8209fc0@marlowe> References: <006301c0830a$65959f70$b8209fc0@marlowe>
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In message <006301c0830a$65959f70$b8209fc0@marlowe> "Shawn Barnhart" writes: : Is there a hard limit on the number of disk label entries? Yes. a-h is all you get. On boot disks, a is /, b is swap. On all disks 'c' is the whole disk (too many things break when you ignore this rule). : I have a disk slice defined with partitions a-h and would like to an 'i' : entry to finish off the disk space. Is this not permitted? When I try to : create the device, I get the following error: Nope. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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