Partitions per slice limitation removed?

[Andrew Von Cid]

Hi,
> No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From
> head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]:
>
> "Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue
> of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions."
>
> [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=174501
>   

Has anyone actually got that working?  I just tried adding a 9th label
on 8.0-RC2 with no luck.  I tried both gpart and bsdlabel.

silver% gpart show ad4s1
=>       0  62914257  ad4s1  BSD  (30G)
         0   1048576      1  freebsd-ufs  (512M)
   1048576   2097152      2  freebsd-swap  (1.0G)
   3145728  14680064      4  freebsd-ufs  (7.0G)
  17825792   3145728      5  freebsd-ufs  (1.5G)
  20971520   1048576      6  freebsd-ufs  (512M)
  22020096   4194304      7  freebsd-ufs  (2.0G)
  26214400   4194304      8  freebsd-ufs  (2.0G)
  30408704  32505553         - free -  (15G)

silver% sudo gpart add -b 30408704 -s 32505553 -t freebsd-ufs ad4s1
gpart: index '9': No space left on device

...and if I specify the index manually I get this:

silver% sudo gpart add -b 30408704 -s 32505553 -t freebsd-ufs -i 9 ad4s1
gpart: index '9': Invalid argument

silver% uname -r
8.0-RC2

Perhaps this isn't going to make into 8.0-RELEASE after all or am I
doing something wrong?


Cheers,


Andrew./