From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 23 20:15:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7968C16A412 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:15:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j65nko@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE9C43D46 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:15:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j65nko@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so331166uge for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:15:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=naFKgh3glbuNgCRibylDurfXwik+tvco3awXwQpdEf7aqalBx957Mthlel0Te6nK5Lwp7TyGu6SNl+62/YKaCBgbsj3Z5AMcMzxZi/3Kl2vOV7c3x+COamkJjKTz+BIt6S6GAXXZUpHih6sHljrwgIymxaDXKJyTbVoW15Ig5rk= Received: by 10.66.216.20 with SMTP id o20mr1868276ugg; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.10 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19861fba0609231315t49deb0fax3856129d56e143bd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:15:01 +0200 From: J65nko To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: nested labels X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:15:03 -0000 On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz wrote: > I have hit the limit of 8 disklabels per slice. Supposedly, one can > create lables within a label, thus overcoming this limit. I googled > everything but could only find references to gpt-- nothing about nested > labels or partitions. Can anyone detail the steps involved in setting up > nested labels or partitions? > A slice can have 8 labels, a disk can have 4 slices, so 4 x 8 labels = 32 labels Deduct from those 32 the reserved "c" and possibly "b" and you still have a lot to spare ;)