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Date:      Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:54:35 -0500
From:      Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@cfl.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: slice X?
Message-ID:  <1078084475.20725.13.camel@morpheus>
In-Reply-To: <20040229075652.3D64940826@fw.farid-hajji.net>
References:  <1078008279.29084.7.camel@morpheus> <20040229075652.3D64940826@fw.farid-hajji.net>

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On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 02:56, Cordula's Web wrote:
> > When I try to create a new slice, it gives it the name 'X' which causes
> > a problem when I try to create new partitions on that slice:
> > 
> > Unable to create partitons on device: /dev/X
> 
> This happens when sysinstall runs out of valid slice names.
> Try using less file systems per partition...


I figured it was because there were no free primary partitions (all free
space was in linux extended partition).

This was solved simply by deleting ALL linux partitions ;)

Thanks,
Aaron



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