---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jon Theil Nielsen <jonth...@gmail.com> Date: 2010/4/30 Subject: Re: More than 8 partitions To: Alberto Mijares <amijar...@gmail.com>
2010/4/30 Alberto Mijares <amijar...@gmail.com> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Theil Nielsen <jonth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot > > with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via > Sysinstall > > with 7 partitions: > > > > /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) > > /dev/da0s2b (swap) > > /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/da0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/da0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/da0s2h on /var/log (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /dev/da0s2g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > > > I have about 660 GB left unused on da0s2 that I would like to use for > > backups. But I can't figure out how to create one more partition. > > > > You should create a new slice (da0s3) and then create new partitions > on it or use the whole slice (ad0s3c). > > Regards > > > Alberto Mijares > Thanks Alberto So it is *not* possible to have more than 8 partitions? Just a matter of interest, since I'm experimenting here. But nice to know. The next problem is that i made fdisk create the two slices covering all the space of the disk. Can I somehow - using FreeBSD tools - shrink the size of da0s2 without data loss? Regards, Jon - reposting this to the list... _______________________________________________ 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"