From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 04:24:17 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 7F96F16A401 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:24:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A45813C4E8 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:24:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0N4OG8o015659 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:24:17 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.41] (c-67-187-172-166.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.166]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0N4OGIn002314 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:24:16 -0800 Message-ID: <45B58DEE.4060607@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:24:14 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45B3E0D0.70005@u.washington.edu> <17844.85.335537.317957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20070122134235.GB1382@polands.org> <20070122222320.GA30161@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20070122222320.GA30161@owl.midgard.homeip.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.2.285561, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.1.22.200933 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __LINES_OF_YELLING 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' 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: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:24:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: >> >>> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# >>> /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 >>> /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 >> ^^^^^^ >> >> Where did you get to create slices. When I installed this system (Sun >> U60) sysinstall didn't offer the possibility of creating a slice at all. >> The only devices of this sort that I can create are da0x and da1x - no 's'! >> >> Is this due to the SPARC64 plattform or did I miss something? > > It is almost certainly due to your platform. Slices (aka partitions in > MS-DOS) are pretty much specific to the IBM PC (and derivatives thereof.) The first step covered the partitions in sysintall, the second step the slices. Maybe you did everything beforehand in fdisk before going to the "graphical" version of disklabel? - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFtY3uEnKyINQw/HARArY7AKCMJf6QQKkIQkDRTER9wa3n/oKV+QCeOIWK Nq96nEqdrAKDzF6ogGlzhYw= =rAnQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----