Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:53:49 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1049133230.37f4bd@mired.org> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name Message-ID: <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de>
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In <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de>, Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> typed: > With a maximum of four slices on PCs you can create up to 28 > partitions, which should be sufficient for a disk. You can put FreeBSD partitions in extended slices, so the upper limit is significantly higher than 28. > I once tried to use (in DOS-terms) logical partitions within an > extended partition. This is possible, if you do the math and creation > of partition tables by hand, but is not supported by the FreBSD tools. No, you don't need to do anything by hand. Just disklabel /dev/amr0s5 and so on, and create the partitions in it. I will note that on 5.0-RELEASE, the extended slice devices didn't get created for me. Of course, one has to wonder why anyone needs as many as seven partitions on a single disk. It's far more common to want to go the other way, and have multiple disks in a single partition. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.
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