Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
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

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another drive, use gpart to create enough

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/12 A. Wright and...@qemg.org On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-02 Thread Christopher Key
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

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Christopher Key
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

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Da Rock
: 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? Use vinum - thats what I needed to do. Mind I had around 15 partitions

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
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

More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
': 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? Regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
-- 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

Fwd: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
: 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

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which supports up to 15 partitions, bsdlabel(8) supports

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Unlike OpenBSD's disklabel(8) which

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should be possible.

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this: #define MAXPARTITIONS 26 which at least tells me that is has been the