Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:59:48 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011210005425.R25028-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20011208205131.A56648@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > : > > :On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:49:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> We do not have enough partition id's to make a separate > > :> /usr/local. > > : > > :Has anyone considered raising the max number of partitions from 8 to 16 > > :as OpenBSD did years ago? > > > > Oh, by the way... there is actually a way you can bump up the number > > of partitions. What you do is split the disk up into multiple slices. > > We have 4, after all. You can then disklabel each one. We have 30. More would require much the same minor number surgery as more partitions. > This works on x86 but not on alpha which does not use slices. If so, then this is a bug on alphas. Slices are not machine-dependent, except possibily ones that you want to boot from. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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