Subject: Creating more then 8 partitions
To: NetBSD-Help <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dante Profeta <dante@neomedia.it>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/08/1996 18:10:25
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