From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 6:51:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-031.telepath.com [216.14.0.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05DA337B424 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 41151 invoked by uid 100); 25 Sep 2000 13:50:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14799.22594.938807.141382@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:50:58 -0500 (CDT) To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max partitions per slice In-Reply-To: <99824587@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David J. Kanter writes: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:01:35PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Not realizing that you've got all 8 partions. They're a-h. If you need > > to add another file system, you're going to have to point the c > > partition at it. > I was under the impression that the "c" should be left alone. So you're > saying it's OK to point c to another slice? What are the ramification of > losing the "c"? People who expect that it will point at the entire disk will be surprised. The only use I've ever seen made of the c partition being the entire disk is to make image backups from one drive to another. If I remember right, those were rm03s, at about 80meg each. The pack was removable, so we kept three circulating through each drive (todays, yesterdays, and tomorrows ;-). Of course, I've never seen anyone who needed more than 7 active partitions, so I've not seen it done. On the other hand, I would have said the same thing about the "a" partition being root until last week. I put root on a c partition (didn't want to resize a to be the whole slice) and grub refused to boot the disk. So if you do it and something breaks, let us know! Oh yeah - if you really need this and c doesn't work, and can free up a slice, you can use partitions from other slices. The "c-partition root" used the whole slice for data, and "borrowed" another FreeBSD install's swap from a different partition.