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Date:      Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:51:31 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems)
Message-ID:  <20011208205131.A56648@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200112081911.fB8JBTW06147@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800
References:  <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <p05101006b83737546907@[128.113.24.47]> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> <20011208103048.C11428@dragon.nuxi.com> <200112081911.fB8JBTW06147@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :
> :On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:49:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :> 		We do not have enough partition id's to make a separate
> :> 		/usr/local.
> :
> :Has anyone considered raising the max number of partitions from 8 to 16
> :as OpenBSD did years ago?
> 
>     Oh, by the way... there is actually a way you can bump up the number
>     of partitions.  What you do is split the disk up into multiple slices.
>     We have 4, after all.  You can then disklabel each one.

This works on x86 but not on alpha which does not use slices.

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