Re: # of labels per slice [was: Re: bsdlabel on root disk]

From: John Kennedy (jk_at_jk.homeunix.net)
Date: 01/31/04

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To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>

    On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:28:43PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
    > ... Wouldn't it be a great thing to have more than 8 labels per slice in FreeBSD
    > too? My intention was to give every jail it's own mountpoint so size
    > was absolutely fixed.

      If you were just having fun fighting with sysinstall with a reasonable
    (but more than 8) number of partitions, I'd recommend using multiple
    partitions, each having slices up to 'h'.
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