From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 19:12:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035C516A403 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:12:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx3.netclusive.de (mx3.netclusive.de [89.110.132.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFF113C459 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:12:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (p3EE22B71.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.226.43.113]) by mx3.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950F6604157 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:12:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 9CEA515213; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:12:04 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:12:04 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <45B3E1FA.80301@u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: garfield.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1169493124 62249 192.168.100.11 (22 Jan 2007 19:12:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:12:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive 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: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:12:07 -0000 On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:58:18 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Why create so many partitions? You can use slices to your benefit and > you wouldn't use up your allocatable partitions on the disk's MBR. The point is that I wasn't given the chance to create any slices. Regards Chris