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

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 11/17/11 03:34, Andrey V. Elsukov 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`?
>

APM partition maps have a preprogrammed max size -- Apple's Disk Utility 
often sets it to a very small number (4) when making disks with only one 
partition. To fix it, you need to reformat the drive completely.
-Nathan