Jon Theil Nielsen 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. > If i create a file for bsdlabel like > > # size offset fstype > i: * 0 4.2BSD > > I get the following error message: "line 2: partition name out of range a-h: > i" > I have also tried with gpart: > > gpart add -s 500G -t freebsd -f x da0s2 > > I get something like "gpart: index '9': No space left on device" > > I thought that 8.0 should support more than 8 partitions. Maybe it does, but > then I don't know how to do. > Any ideas? > > I believe that FreeBSD does support more than 8 partitions on a disk (apparently up to 20 using gpart), but that you need sufficient entries for these partitions to be created in the disklabel, viz.
gpart create -n 20 ... Some testing seems to indicate that you can manually override this by changing by byte 0x28a of the disk from 0x08 to 0x14, and that bsdlabel / gpart will then allow you to create further partitions on the disk. Kind regards, Christopher Key _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
