In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Siegbert Baude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > With a maximum of four slices on PCs you can create up to 28 > partitions, which should be sufficient for a disk.
You can put FreeBSD partitions in extended slices, so the upper limit is significantly higher than 28. > I once tried to use (in DOS-terms) logical partitions within an > extended partition. This is possible, if you do the math and creation > of partition tables by hand, but is not supported by the FreBSD tools. No, you don't need to do anything by hand. Just disklabel /dev/amr0s5 and so on, and create the partitions in it. I will note that on 5.0-RELEASE, the extended slice devices didn't get created for me. Of course, one has to wonder why anyone needs as many as seven partitions on a single disk. It's far more common to want to go the other way, and have multiple disks in a single partition. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"