Modern FreeBSD Installer?

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 4/23/09, cpghost <cpghost at cordula.ws> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:50:46AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote:
>> The partitioner will allow you to create more partitions than the
>> FreeBSD partition table will allow.  Rather than giving it the name of a
>> special file in the /dev/directory, it will name it just "X".  You can
>> create as many partitions named "X" as you like.
>>
>> Then the newfs will fail.
>>
>> I experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug
>> report about it.
>
> Yes, this is a long standing problem. On one or both of {Open,Net}BSD,

That problem is fixed in 8.0 with introducion of gpart(8)

> the number of possible partitions per slice is higher. I'd really wish
> FreeBSD's bsdlabel(8) would allow for more partitions. The problem
> here is not with sysinstall though. From bsdlabel(8):
>
>      The partition table can have up to 8 entries.  It contains the
> following
>      information:
>
>      #       The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to
>              `h'.  By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the
>              entire disk.
>
> Take away 'b' for swap, and 'c' for the whole disk, you can only
> use 6 partitions per slice (including the root partition) on the
> bootable slice. That's clearly not enough, esp. on big disks, and
> with complex setups. :-(
>
>> Mike
>> --
>> Michael David Crawford
>> mdc at prgmr.com
>
> -cpghost.
>
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Paul