more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

[Erik Trulsson]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote:
> 
> > # Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options            Dump    Pass#
> > /dev/da0s1b     none            swap    sw                 0       0
> > /dev/da0s1a     /               ufs     rw                 1       1
>        ^^^^^^
> 
> Where did you get to create slices. When I installed this system (Sun
> U60) sysinstall didn't offer the possibility of creating a slice at all.
> The only devices of this sort that I can create are da0x and da1x - no 's'!
> 
> Is this due to the SPARC64 plattform or did I miss something?

It is almost certainly due to your platform. Slices (aka partitions in
MS-DOS) are pretty much specific to the IBM PC (and derivatives thereof.)



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