More than 8 partitions

[Jon Theil Nielsen]

2010/5/1 Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>

> On Sat, 1 May 2010 02:53:13 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > But if I look into the source code of bsdlabel
> > (/usr/src/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c), I can see this:
> > #define MAXPARTITIONS   26
> > which at least tells me that is has been the *intention* that it should
> be
> > possible.
>
> Obviously, this refers to the possible letters a, b, c, ..., z
> as partition identifiers instead of numerical ones (e. g. ad0p7).
>
>
>
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> Polytropon
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>

Sure. It could be so. All I know is that the bdslabel error message tells me
that I can't add a label outside the range a-h. And I must admit that I
can't find any official documentation saying that I should be able to do so.
I guess it has been the intention, but that it hasn't been implemented
(yet).

Regards,
Jon