From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 18:11:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDC71065686 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:11:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jontheil@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76F98FC14 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so492044fxm.13 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:10:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=yWOoIwWBvrGWHp1rrpXApNbOOL0WNB9X87J96orih5g=; b=UJ86iYQR2lbSMxcsnRqe6Ca0elXmxR7fq4BEDqXGOQFf98bQ/bQaO/RZsG6X3TQIcT Hw0p8urVqCdYcd8qUb8TsDNYHwoecZohMRtbgZr4Ze+paUpAbXVj1eNu+LFyH+R73git gf9OI8Wf1JpsLw0vw86F5CtLAtqLo9//3l6CY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=ah2UZPrQZMb6ahR/QVEsCrE4XKDhgELzixorQ7FBTrh036WUx8RREu86ymPrOsK6qT q5Ur0x9jjA2PLitv5D4K0deR1P1XjEUthmQdWOdL2GU/tlwVRs79+JAk9qf8TV4BPCUM opWzMh7lP8j6QE5htgg+rTvZC5YbC12Jj6mUQ= Received: by 10.223.143.67 with SMTP id t3mr1572885fau.16.1272649513093; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:45:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.68 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:44:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Theil Nielsen Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:44:52 +0200 Message-ID: To: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: More than 8 partitions 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: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:11:00 -0000 Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. If i create a file for bsdlabel like # size offset fstype i: * 0 4.2BSD I get the following error message: "line 2: partition name out of range a-h: i" I have also tried with gpart: gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 I get something like "gpart: index '9': No space left on device" I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but then I don't know how to do. Any ideas? Regards, Jon