I've been going over all the FAQs and documents that I can find regarding the Hurd, and have found that Hurd uses a BSD style disklabel. I love this feature, but I want to know how to use it. For example, under FreeBSD, you can create a slice (dos partition) and then within it you can divide it further into 8 BSD partitions and the disk would then be ad0s1a for the first BSD partition on the first slice on the first IDE disk, ad1s2b for the second BSD partition on the second slice of the second IDE disk, etc. No juggling filesystems around like with Linux. For the Hurd, I have seen mention that it uses disklabels but I haven't seen anything on how to create this style of partition. And, does the 1GB limit refer to the size of the slice or the partition within the slice?
Joseph
