From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 14 12:21:43 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 E9AFE106564A for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:21:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D548FC41 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from haran.polands.org ([75.87.219.217]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090814122142723.XDJE29672@hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com>; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:21:42 +0000 Received: from email.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7ECLfqj035352; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:21:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 209.103.215.99 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:21:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3f6d7b897944e7dbd463b70d407bd09b.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <4A8540AD.6020700@unsane.co.uk> References: <20090813222501.GB29899@brisbane.nepharia.org> <4A8540AD.6020700@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:21:42 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" To: "Vincent Hoffman" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Mak Kolybabi , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:21:44 -0000 On Fri, August 14, 2009 05:47, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Mak Kolybabi wrote: >> 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? >>> >> >> 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 >> >> > Indeed and from http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html (a > reasonably complete list of whats comming in 8.0) it says > > bsdlabel gets extended to 26 partitions > > Status: Committed to -CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Author: Marcel > Moolenaar web: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-December/084949.html > > bsdlabel is (finally!) extended to support more than 8 partitions. > The new limit of 26 partitions comes from the number of lower-case > letters. > > To make use of this change, GEOM_PART needs to be used instead of > GEOM_BSD (this requires custom kernel configurations). > Ah, Ivan's site, that's where I saw it. Thank you. Kinda surprised it didn't turn up on a google search. -- Regards, Doug