Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:50 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? Message-ID: <3a142e750904231510q758770cev768c4e3e2cd80acb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090423204247.GA44182@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <714DFCFC-9547-497D-A2C7-0BA10B39B901@mac.com> <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>
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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):
>
> The partition table can have up to 8 entries. It contains the
> following
> information:
>
> # The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to
> `h'. By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the
> entire disk.
>
> Take away 'b' for swap, and 'c' for the whole disk, you can only
> use 6 partitions per slice (including the root partition) on the
> bootable slice. That's clearly not enough, esp. on big disks, and
> with complex setups. :-(
>
>> Mike
>> --
>> Michael David Crawford
>> mdc@prgmr.com
>
> -cpghost.
>
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