IBook G4 and FreeBSD 9.0-RC2: unable to create four slices on hard drive?

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 17.11.2011 15:47, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:34:47 +0400
> "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 17.11.2011 1:46, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>>> As you can see, the drive is APM partitioned, and there is 16 G of free space on it.
>>> g-ibook# gpart add -s 2G -t freebsd-swap ada0
>>> gpart: index '4': No space left on device
>>
>> Can you show the output of `gpart list ada0`?
> 
> Sure:
> root at kg-ibook# gpart list ada0
> Geom name: ada0
> modified: false
> state: OK
> fwheads: 16
> fwsectors: 63
> last: 117210239
> first: 5
> entries: 3
          ^^^ - this is why you get this error.

This information is from the metadata.
I'm not familiar with APM partition table, but may be Marcel can suggest something?

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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