Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:18:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More thoughts on the installer Message-ID: <199506050418.VAA19935@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950605115150.170E-100000@leo> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 5, 95 12:10:31 pm
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> > > * What's an 'X' partition? Extended? Why would that apply within a > > > FreeBSD slice? When I tried to make lots and lots of filesystems, > > > the installer hung after I filled all eight slots on the screen. > > > > ?? Not seen this! Will check. > > Still there last night. I think once you run out of partition > letters (after creating five filesystems, I think?), it starts using > "X" instead "sd0s1j" or whatever. X means "couldn't assign a name" which means that you're all out of partitions. You can have seven per slice: [abd-h] -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?
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