From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 00:00:27 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 DB6661065675 for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 00:00:27 +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 6BD8E8FC1A for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 00:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so738913fxm.13 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:00:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=hUz1jPda2Q8tvDTtqsNeSQC6kANT8wVvAwFfnyzxDeY=; b=qvwA976puiLzBY9jZ28gUWW4J1fIULb3NCYZ+qBlXk2KH5+Dur9Atovanlz4oJlEJZ rdbHZyLQudA1EYlJOvyVH8HGrw83w1KpD+yJhlZdHSxPYg82fFkcMhCO7R1RleEXAFO+ yFQiAz3beV3WDZqEQw5hfRIRREd1WAuX9rUwI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=mVGCkOmjsT0tfvUSELJsuCM0dKMGIW20x+sHHd7aJY8uHQqAK35l5XtjfcTfG1np99 hS8mgxZAFIK8bldl63guu5l967dRXF3e9+q5btLjYFqilczilVrU3rlY+ELX3NoAi6Zg WlYACyVwixOpreCtm7+uKMcqrA4kbg5GvLp6w= Received: by 10.223.32.85 with SMTP id b21mr1756246fad.95.1272672021103; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:00:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.68 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:00:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1272667827.27963.34.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> From: Jon Theil Nielsen Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 02:00:01 +0200 Message-ID: To: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Fwd: 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: Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:27 -0000 2010/5/1 Da Rock On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > 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? > > Use vinum - thats what I needed to do. Mind I had around 15 partitions > to work out so it is effective... > > Maybe I should consider that too. But this installation is quite experimental, and I just thought that it would be a simple task to make a few extra partitions, since that was what I read about when 8.0 was released. But I haven't found any documentation on the issue. I guess I either have to use some non-FreeBSD tool to change the size of my slices or backup the installation to another drive, rerun fdisk etc., and copy the system back. 'Regards, Jon