Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:36:37 +0600 From: "Eugene Panchenko" <replicator@ngs.ru> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More than 6 partitions on one slice? Message-ID: <web-6612490@intranet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011207131850.F57799@monorchid.lemis.com>
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> > I'm afraid that I can't use b since it's my swap... > > OK, but in general this works. Oh, no doubt, I was speaking only for my case... > > > if you're using a PC, you can create 4 slices in > > > Microsoft partitions > > > > I've already have used up all 4 partitions for QNX, > > NetBSD, MSDOS622 (yeah, I admit), and, of course, > > FreeBSD :) > > OK, but in general this works. Same thing here ;-) > There are a large number of reasons why this won't work. > The most obvious one is the question of device nodes: > the minor number only has three bits for the partition > number, so it wouldn't work. You'd be better off with > the Vinum solution. :-(( But your explanation is very good, thanks!.. > I still have difficulty believing you need this many > partitions. The reason is quite simple, consider my current layout: / a swap b c /var/ftp d /var e /tmp f /usr g /home h And I have about 50G (out of 80G) left. I'd like to use it for, say, /mnt/media, or something like that. I also want to mount /var/www separately -- so much easier for doing backups (oh I *love* dump/restore ;-)) Thanks again!!! ---------------------------------------------------------- πΟΣΕΤΙΤΕ "νοσλοχσλικ ηοςοδσλοκ σακτ" http://mosk.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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