Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:50:27 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name Message-ID: <3E81F673.4040706@centtech.com> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: [..snip..] > 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 Separating the 350Gb up into smaller chunks makes dividing the space for different projects much easier. Also, this is a RAID 50, so I've got the "multiple disk in a single partition" taken care of. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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