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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:58:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Eric <erics@idirect.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More then 4 Partitions on a SCSI drive.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906151047120.8930-100000@empirion.idirect.com>
In-Reply-To: <m10tgQH-000WyUC@mips.rhein-neckar.de>

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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906141346040.8930-100000@empirion.idirect.com> you write:
> 
> > I couldn't find anything on the web site about this.  I'm trying to make
> > more then 4 partitions on one SCSI drive (Seagate Baracuda)... but
> > anything after the 4th partition it creates a bogus devices called X.
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Could you elaborate?
> My drive is effectively divided into six partitions (once upon a time
> created with sysinstall's diskLabelEditor):
> 
> naddy@bigeye[~] /sbin/disklabel da0 | tail
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:   204800        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 19*)
>   b:   262144  3276800      swap                        # (Cyl.  310*- 335*)
>   c:  8899737        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 844*)
>   e:  3072000   204800    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.   19*- 310*)
>   f:  1024000  3538944    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  335*- 432*)
>   g:  1024000  4562944    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  432*- 529*)
>   h:  3312793  5586944    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  529*- 844*)

Unfortunatly I don't get the samething.  Once I create my 5 slices, here's
what I see once I'm done with the Disklabel Editor

Part	Mount		Size	Newfs
----	-----		----	-----
da0s1a	/		996MB	UFS Y
da0s2b	swap		251MB	SWAP
da0s3e	/var		996MB	UFS Y
da0s4e	/opt		996MB	UFS Y
X	/usr		5436MB  UFS Y

It will always create a X device anything after the 4th patition.  I was
curious and commited the install and during creation of the filesystems,
it gave the error "Device X does not exist".  Sorry if I'm sending to the
wrong list, I was told this was a SCSI issue.  Once again thanks for any
info.



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