Why is NetBSD limited to just 8 partitions (a-h) for the whole disk ?  I
had asked this question once, but I got a reply that if that was to be
changed, then the different disklabels would be incompatible.

But then, I saw that OpenBSD has 16 partitions, and things still seem to
work smooth.  Could anybody elaborate as to what the issues would be if 16
partitions were allowed.

The problem is that b,c and d all go for swap and as reserved.  That
leaves me with only 5 partitions.  a for root, and e for /usr leaves only
3 partitions.  And I have a 17 gig hard-disk !  Any suggestions ?


Rakhesh