From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 14:00:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:00:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from not.comversens.com (not.bostech.com [205.139.12.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA17378 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:00:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahd@comversens.com) Received: from mail-bridge.btrd.bostontechnology.com by not.comversens.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA25595; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:00:26 -0500 Received: from mailer.comversens.com (mailer.btrd.bostontechnology.com [89.2.0.222]) by mail-bridge.btrd.bostontechnology.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id Z0VLYLWX; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:00:43 -0500 Received: from comversens.com by mailer.comversens.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA06724; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:00:15 -0500 Message-ID: <36928B43.642369E7@comversens.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 16:59:31 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Comverse Network Systems R & D X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max partitions in one slice? References: <36923FC4.606FFDB3@comversens.com> <19990106075150.N78349@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 11:37:24 -0500, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > > What's the maximum number of partitions (file systems) allowed in one > > disk slice? > > 8 partitions, 7 file systems. That's at least 5 file systems too > many. Not sure why you say too many, since with even one disk with I prefer the ability to dump less than all of my system at once (just the home directories file system for example) and like to be able to break out special things like /usr/obj to give different mount options to them. Anyway, this was for comparison to SCO Unixware 1.1.x, which allows 8 file systems, but only 2G per file system. Since FreeBSD has a much higher limit (terabyte range) per file system, it turns out the number of file systems per slice is not an issue. Thanks for the answer. -ahd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message