Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:46:57 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>, Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? Message-ID: <20090423224657.GA45129@phenom.cordula.ws> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750904231510q758770cev768c4e3e2cd80acb@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904222316130.3543@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <49EF98C6.2060902@virtualhost.nl> <49EFA169.4050903@otenet.gr> <20090423084637.eb58cbe1.freebsd@edvax.de> <49F01208.2080705@otenet.gr> <20090423090727.c3460e7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <49F01C67.30205@otenet.gr> <49F01DD6.6070406@prgmr.com> <20090423204247.GA44182@phenom.cordula.ws> <3a142e750904231510q758770cev768c4e3e2cd80acb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:10:50AM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 4/23/09, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:50:46AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote:
> >> The partitioner will allow you to create more partitions than the
> >> FreeBSD partition table will allow. Rather than giving it the name of a
> >> special file in the /dev/directory, it will name it just "X". You can
> >> create as many partitions named "X" as you like.
> >>
> >> Then the newfs will fail.
> >>
> >> I experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug
> >> report about it.
> >
> > Yes, this is a long standing problem. On one or both of {Open,Net}BSD,
>
> That problem is fixed in 8.0 with introducion of gpart(8)
>
> > the number of possible partitions per slice is higher. I'd really wish
> > FreeBSD's bsdlabel(8) would allow for more partitions. The problem
> > here is not with sysinstall though. From bsdlabel(8):
Ah, gpart(8), good hint! Not yet familiar with that.
Apparently, it's already in 7.x. I have no spare disk right now to
give it a try. Would it already support 8+ partitions on RELENG_7,
or do we have to wait for 8.0?
> Paul
Thanks,
-cpghost.
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