From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 24 14:50:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mg136-159.ricochet.net [204.179.136.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAF037B560 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00409; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006242154.OAA00409@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jens Schweikhardt Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitions named X In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 2000 23:22:18 +0200." <20000624232218.A1621@obsidian.noc.dfn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:54:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > hello, world\n > > today I installed 4.0-Release off of the CD-ROM. Unlike in the past > years, this time I tried creating more than 6 partitions (+swap) in the > partition editor in one slice. I.e. after sd0s1[b-h] I (C)reated another > one which showed up as 'X' instead of sd0s1N. My question is: can I > mount those partitions as well (I was asked for a mount point)? If so, > what would I have to put in /etc/fstab for such a partition? You can't have more than 8 partitions (total) per slice. The fact that you were allowed to create the extra partition is a bug. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message