Subject: Re: disklabel number of partition ?
To: NetBSD/i386 Mailing List <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Alex van Denzel <bitbucket@adenzel.demon.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/30/2000 22:32:57
Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:25:31AM +0200, Richard PLOIX wrote:
> > I want to know if it is possible to have more than 8 partitions in the
> > disklabel ?
> > for example : sd0a, sd0b, sd0c, sd0d, sd0e, sd0f, sd0g, sd0h,
> > and now for an extra disk, I need an other partition, sd0i.
> > I need this for my 5th msdos partition.
> > or in a last use, is it possible to make it on disklabel sd1?
> 
> Now I'm sure I don't know what you want...
> 
> do you want an additional disk? It has its own disk label/partition table.
> 
> do you want more partitions on the same disk? Then proceed as adviced a
> few messages ago.
> 
> Regards,
>         -is

I guess, he wants to create non-NetBSD partitions on the disk. But to my
knowledge the 'IBM-style' partition table has nothing to do with a BSD
disklabel or partition table.

-- 
Alex

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