Re: number of partitions
On 15.05.2008, at 19:09, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:36:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks like I cannot create more than 8 partitions at boot time on a single disk. how to overcome this problem ? thanks Use fdisk to make up to 4 slices on the disk; e.g. ad0 gets ad0s1 to ad0s4. you can then create up to 6 usable partitions on each slice. Roland if you are on 7.0 and your box is equipped for it (memory) you could - and probably should - give ZFS a try. I use it w/o troubles and it really eliminates the partitioning (and other) hassles. Simply put: it is the next big thing in storage ;-) Have a look here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS take care, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number of partitions
how to do it ? I need to create something like 16 partitions on a disk. you may create up to 4 slices if you use slices at all (i don't) on each you can make 7 partitions (8-one for c) but each partition CAN be partitioned again. so you can make any number of partitions. example of my home system (lots of DVD-sized partitions to make backups easy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# bsdlabel ad0 # /dev/ad0: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 9180416 164.2BSD0 0 0 b: 200 91804324.2BSD 2048 16384 28384 c: 2344416480unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 200 111804324.2BSD 4096 32768 62504 e: 64262928 131804324.2BSD0 0 0 h: 156998288 774433604.2BSD0 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# bsdlabel ad0e # /dev/ad0e: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 9180416 164.2BSD0 0 0 b: 9180416 91804324.2BSD0 0 0 c: 642629280unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 9180416 183608484.2BSD0 0 0 e: 9180416 275412644.2BSD0 0 0 f: 9180416 367216804.2BSD0 0 0 g: 9180416 459020964.2BSD0 0 0 h: 9180416 550825124.2BSD0 0 0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
number of partitions
hello, I would like to create a large number of partitions. how to do it ? I need to create something like 16 partitions on a disk. I tryed and after the 7th partition the dev is assigned to /dev/X looks like I cannot create more than 8 partitions at boot time on a single disk. how to overcome this problem ? thanks Rick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number of partitions
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:36:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks like I cannot create more than 8 partitions at boot time on a single disk. how to overcome this problem ? thanks Use fdisk to make up to 4 slices on the disk; e.g. ad0 gets ad0s1 to ad0s4. you can then create up to 6 usable partitions on each slice. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpwt9JvmkKXG.pgp Description: PGP signature
