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

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

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
scheme: APM
Providers:
1. Name: ada0s2
   Mediasize: 819200 (800k)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 1309274112
   Mode: r0w0e0
   rawtype: Apple_Bootstrap
   label: (null)
   length: 819200
   offset: 27079077888
   type: apple-boot
   index: 1
   end: 52890423
   start: 52888824
2. Name: ada0s3
   Mediasize: 26944827392 (25G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 134250496
   Mode: r0w0e0
   rawtype: Apple_HFS
   label: Untitled
   length: 26944827392
   offset: 134250496
   type: apple-hfs
   index: 2
   end: 52888823
   start: 262208
3. Name: ada0s4
   Mediasize: 15031566336 (14G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 1310093312
   Mode: r1w1e1
   rawtype: FreeBSD-UFS
   label: (null)
   length: 15031566336
   offset: 27079897088
   type: freebsd-ufs
   index: 3
   end: 82248951
   start: 52890424
Consumers:
1. Name: ada0
   Mediasize: 60011642880 (55G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e2


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Torfinn