Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 07:10:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: s m <sam.gh1986@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: define more partitions in freebsd Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306010703170.81992@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20130601092111.8c1ad1c0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAA_1SgHpcfWmS-CgE1WfQj4GLop9Wgeg__v2tzVbCj8pyt=qiA@mail.gmail.com> <20130601092111.8c1ad1c0.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:10:32 +0430, s m wrote: > >> my question is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for >> example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h, ad3s1i, ad3s1j, ...). > > You cannot. You need to use the GPT partitioning approach > and repartition your disk. With gpart, you can create more > than 'h' partitions, but the partitions will have different > names, such as ad3s1p1, ad3s1p2, ..., ad3s1p10, ad3s1p11, ... > and so on. GPT partitioning is a replacement for MBR partitioning, and will generally look like ad3p1, ad3p2, and so on. FreeBSD's GPT implementation should allow 128 GPT partitions by default, although I have not tested that. Use of gpart to set up a disk is shown here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html The FreeBSD 9.x installer, bsdinstall, uses GPT partitioning by default. The older sysinstall that is used on FreeBSD 8 does not, and probably has no native way to use GPT. The partitions would have to be set up manually from a shell before running the installer, and then manually entered in the installer.
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