Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:10:13 +0800 (PHT) From: "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dave Walton <walton@nordicrecords.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909011106580.16858-100000@atlas.usls.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990901121431.Y13904@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Yes, 8, one of which (the c partition) must represent the entire disk. so that's 8 - 1 = 7 maximum partitions. btw, i have your book -- it's great! helped me a lot in my transition from linux to freebsd. one thing though: the documentation on vinum is not that too detailed. probably a chapter with HOWTOs would be nice :) > > if there is, how do you increase the limit? > > You hack the kernel sources, in the process creating disks that no > normal FreeBSD system will recognize correctly. But, as I said, I > have great doubts that you need even as many partitions as you have. too dirty, i'll just stick with the pristine code. -- francis vidal university of st. la salle, bacolod city, philippines . . . . . . . PGP key available via e-mail / subject: get PGP key u s l s N E T tel. nos. (6334).435.2324 / 433.3526 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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