On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> 64 partitions has the additional issue that the current on-disk
> bsd disklabel format doesn't allow for that many entries,
> so we would have to create yet another on-disk format to store
> that many partitions.  the current bsd label layout is constrained
> to one 512-byte sector on many platforms because of the placement of
> the bsd label at sector 0 and the placement of the boot blocks
> right after that.

True, but the bsd disklabel format isn't the only disk partitioning format
we can read. Both Apple partitioning and MBR partitioning can get us to
beyond 32 partitions quick. :-)

Take care,

Bill