Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:04:16 +0000 From: Andrew Von Cid <andrew@accid.net> To: Mak Kolybabi <mak@kolybabi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitions per slice limitation removed? Message-ID: <4AE77C70.2040300@accid.net> In-Reply-To: <20090813222501.GB29899@brisbane.nepharia.org> References: <20090813222501.GB29899@brisbane.nepharia.org>
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Hi, > No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From > head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: > > "Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue > of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions." > > [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=174501 > Has anyone actually got that working? I just tried adding a 9th label on 8.0-RC2 with no luck. I tried both gpart and bsdlabel. silver% gpart show ad4s1 => 0 62914257 ad4s1 BSD (30G) 0 1048576 1 freebsd-ufs (512M) 1048576 2097152 2 freebsd-swap (1.0G) 3145728 14680064 4 freebsd-ufs (7.0G) 17825792 3145728 5 freebsd-ufs (1.5G) 20971520 1048576 6 freebsd-ufs (512M) 22020096 4194304 7 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 26214400 4194304 8 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 30408704 32505553 - free - (15G) silver% sudo gpart add -b 30408704 -s 32505553 -t freebsd-ufs ad4s1 gpart: index '9': No space left on device ...and if I specify the index manually I get this: silver% sudo gpart add -b 30408704 -s 32505553 -t freebsd-ufs -i 9 ad4s1 gpart: index '9': Invalid argument silver% uname -r 8.0-RC2 Perhaps this isn't going to make into 8.0-RELEASE after all or am I doing something wrong? Cheers, Andrew./
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