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Re: Partition question (Was new installer disklabel question)

by Ted Unangst-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, STeve Andre'<andres@...> wrote:
> What reasons are there for not extending partitions to z?  With 2T disks
> out, having 14 partitions means not being able to make smaller ones.

the disklabel must fit in only so much disk.  if you want lots of baby
partitions, you can use softraid to chop up the big disk into smaller
disks.

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