From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 13 22:42:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4407910656D6 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mak@kolybabi.com) Received: from mail.nepharia.org (mail.nepharia.org [209.44.104.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2728FC45 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from brisbane.nepharia.org (wnpgmb0804w-ad03-80-117.dynamic.mts.net [74.216.80.117]) by mail.nepharia.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6BE43F0460 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:25:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: by brisbane.nepharia.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) mak@kolybabi.com; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:25:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:25:04 -0500 From: Mak Kolybabi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090813222501.GB29899@brisbane.nepharia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: Partions per slice limitation removed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:42:10 -0000 On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: > I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no > longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and > reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support > it. Was I dreaming? (Forgot to send this reply to the list the first time, not just the OP.) No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: "Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions." [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=174501 -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions