Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 18:39:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@cybercable.fr>, "Sergey A. Ivanov" <lw@pd.chel.ru>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partition limits Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008051834070.56226-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20000805152543.K66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: >On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 05:12:29PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> "Sergey A. Ivanov" <lw@pd.chel.ru> writes: >> >> > Are there any limits for size/quantity of partitions at freebsd >> > slice? >> >> yes, 8 slices. OpenBSD allow 16 slices. don't know about NetBSD. > >ITYM, 8 partitions per slice with 7 usable (the 'c'-parition should >not be used for filesystem or swap). That is correct, and to answer the above question, NetBSD also uses 8 partitions per slice with the c partition being reserved. As far as I can tell one of the primary reasons for sticking with this scheme is that some platforms have firmware which look for information in 4.2BSD style partition schemes. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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