On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 05:12:29PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>> "Sergey A. Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Are there any limits for size/quantity of partitions at freebsd
>> > slice?
>>
>> yes, 8 slices. OpenBSD allow 16 slices. don't know about NetBSD.
>
>ITYM, 8 partitions per slice with 7 usable (the 'c'-parition should
>not be used for filesystem or swap).
That is correct, and to answer the above question, NetBSD also uses 8
partitions per slice with the c partition being reserved. As far as I
can tell one of the primary reasons for sticking with this scheme is
that some platforms have firmware which look for information in 4.2BSD
style partition schemes.
Brandon D. Valentine
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