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On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz <off@panix.com> wrote:
> I have hit the limit of 8 disklabels per slice.  Supposedly, one can
> create lables within a label, thus overcoming this limit.  I googled
> everything but could only find references to gpt-- nothing about nested
> labels or partitions.  Can anyone detail the steps involved in setting up
> nested labels or partitions?

You might want to have a look at glabel(8), or maybe gnop(8),
or even http://wiki.freebsd.org/gvirstor