From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 00:47:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA19297 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:47:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA19217 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:47:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04169; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:46:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marko Bukvic cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more than 8 partitions In-Reply-To: <199803090306.WAA02042@dreadnought.pfmc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Marko Bukvic wrote: > Greetings, > > Is it possible to have more than 8 (Xds1h) slices on a 2.2.5-RELEASE > box? I tried configuring /,/var,/var/local,/tmp,swap,/usr,/usr/local, > and /home on my 4 gig drive and the label editor put a X over the last > slice. It couldnt newfs it, and when the install was done and I > rebooted, that slice could not be used. I tried to nuke /usr/local as it > was sd0s1h and the last slice I made and tried to make it use the > remainder of the disk but the label editor said "Unable to create the > partition. Too big?" On different slices, sure. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message