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Subject: Re: 8 partitions maximum
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On 11/30/10, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We all know that we can only have 8 ufs partitions in one freebsd slice.
> Since OpenBSD and NetBSD can support at most 32 partitions iirc.
>
> I wonder why FreeBSD still lacks more ufs partitions in one slice?

Actually FreeBSD supports more that 8 ufs partitions via gpart(8).