On Mon, 08 Jul 1996 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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