From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 00:53:40 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 D1113106564A for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 00:53:40 +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 5B4F08FC08 for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 00:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so761976fxm.13 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:53:33 -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:cc:content-type; bh=onh6VWvidti1QyLRmicb8cmcAUP/2iuTC+2LzAv6Y9g=; b=Ex5ko27LW3GP5xNUdcBNFGg529JPWArQONO2BJXMmeKQ/6mU3Lmgty7fr1Z0HX9r0+ 4FydwlerEFSVRZPI3ya/9TYKqYv21CuQVqIXlW8QqjDkWuPQsxomZeCxR6A5I9tzSj2J +TL+3bt4qrAaMvwFEouPE3ItJnJg/+WSzZZ/4= 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 :cc:content-type; b=A/Mtusj5QcP+kmPLEXjtkfwfF6jooih0XgL3Hdon5FaWg3XZKzKoaO/OT6hY9SPdFR 85aMI1iMJPCZ/AHmHpUwlYUcp7pCK0qBSd+UsMV/nGJj10YDvSkRo8GpPUzI49Rh1STd dBez76z5f9cwrdXxjjWvNr86YL7fTvn/kpIDU= Received: by 10.223.58.83 with SMTP id f19mr1766772fah.88.1272675213178; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:53:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.68 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:53:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Jon Theil Nielsen Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200 Message-ID: To: "C. P. Ghost" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: 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 00:53:40 -0000 2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen > wrote: > > So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of > > interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. > > Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, > bsdlabel(8) > supports only 8 partitions (including the whole disk): > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8 > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html > > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ I am very far from being an expert on these issues. And this link is certainly not "documentation": http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible. Regards, Jon