netbsd-help: Re: Creating more then 8 partitions

Subject: Re: Creating more then 8 partitions
To: Dante Profeta <dante@neomedia.it>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/08/1996 12:39:31

On 1996年7月08日 18:10:25 +0200 
 Dante Profeta <dante@neomedia.it> wrote:
One quick question:
	"Which platform are you using?"
Only a couple of NetBSD platforms support more than 8 partitions, and 
they do so only because the "native" partition table format supports more 
than 8 (currently the amiga, atari, and mac68k ... are there others?)
 > I`ve currently 8 partition (from sd0a to sd0h) on my hd:
 > 
 > 8 partitions:
 > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
 > a: 61040 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 139)
 > b: 245904 61040 swap # (Cyl. 140 - 703)
 > c: 2104136 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4825)
 > d: 2104136 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4825)
 > e: 614324 306944 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 704 - 2112)
 > f: 732044 921268 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 2113 - 3791)
 > g: 409840 1653312 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 3792 - 4731)
 > h: 40984 2063152 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 4732 - 4825)
 > 
 > 
 > Now I need to split a partition into two new ones.
 > I modified /dev/MAKEDEV file to let him create the sd0i and rsd0i devices.
 > 
 > Then I issue the "disklabel -e sd0" changing it as follows:
 > 
 > 9 partitions:
 > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
 > a: 61040 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 139)
 > b: 245904 61040 swap # (Cyl. 140 - 703)
 > c: 2104136 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4825)
 > d: 2104136 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4825)
 > e: 614324 306944 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 704 - 2112)
 > f: 732044 921268 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 2113 - 3791)
 > g: 204920 1653312 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 3792 - 4261)
 > h: 204920 1858232 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 4262 - 4731)
 > i: 40984 2063152 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 4732 - 4825)
 > 
 > But, when I exit it says:
 > 
 > "wrong # of partitions"
 > 
 > Why I get this message?
 > I hope I could have more then 8 partitions.
 > 
 > Thanks a lot
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