Subject: Re: Two (unrelated, I hope) problems with MS-DOS filesystems...
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/29/1999 10:48:04
>> You really should have used something else than wd0d, it's the raw
>> partition (c and d are reserved on i386).
> Can we *please* get 16 partitions on i386? [b=swap, c,d=reserved,
> so] I can only have 5 partitions on a disk, which is *pathetic*.
True.
I've got 16-partition patches for /sparc and /sun3; I'll have a look at
doing that for /i386 as well.
> Just out of curiousity, what breaks if we increase the # of
> partitions? Have we already filled our disklabel block?
No - see MAXMAXPARTITIONS, which is 22.
der Mouse