On 4/23/09, cpghost <cpgh...@cordula.ws> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:50:46AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: >> The partitioner will allow you to create more partitions than the >> FreeBSD partition table will allow. Rather than giving it the name of a >> special file in the /dev/directory, it will name it just "X". You can >> create as many partitions named "X" as you like. >> >> Then the newfs will fail. >> >> I experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug >> report about it. > > Yes, this is a long standing problem. On one or both of {Open,Net}BSD,
That problem is fixed in 8.0 with introducion of gpart(8) > the number of possible partitions per slice is higher. I'd really wish > FreeBSD's bsdlabel(8) would allow for more partitions. The problem > here is not with sysinstall though. From bsdlabel(8): > > The partition table can have up to 8 entries. It contains the > following > information: > > # The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to > `h'. By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the > entire disk. > > Take away 'b' for swap, and 'c' for the whole disk, you can only > use 6 partitions per slice (including the root partition) on the > bootable slice. That's clearly not enough, esp. on big disks, and > with complex setups. :-( > >> Mike >> -- >> Michael David Crawford >> m...@prgmr.com > > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"