From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 10:39:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B48916A407 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:39:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94EF743D49 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:39:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.142] (helo=anti-virus02-09) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GQLxS-0002Se-6b; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:39:06 +0100 Received: from [82.41.35.166] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GQLxO-00025G-7Z; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:39:02 +0100 Message-ID: <45126BC5.7070501@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:39:01 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060515 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey Katz References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nested labels 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: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:39:12 -0000 On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz 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? There was a discussion on hackers@ recently which mentioned nested labels. Have a search of the archives. Personally I wouldn't touch that solution with a 10ft pole. You explain far too little about *why* you have run out of partitions and what your current disk setup is like. Another option to consider is logical/extended slices (DOS partitions). Inside one of those you can create more FreeBSD slices. The only caveat is that I believe sysinstall will not recognise them so you are down to bsdlabelling them by hand (but you are with nested labels as well); or you can forget labelling them and just use each slice as a partition. Another solution: buy another disk. Slightly wasteful, but by far the easiest. --Alex