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Old 1st June 2011
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Default cant mount 16th partition because of disklabel limitation

those are partitions I have can be seen in linux

~$sudo fdisk -l

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1977 995998+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda2 * 1977 6806 2433847+ a6 OpenBSD
/dev/sda3 6807 12622 2931264 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4 12623 350819 170450564+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 12623 22313 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 22313 32003 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 32003 41693 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 41693 76580 17583111 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 76580 118305 21029053+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 118305 195809 39062016 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 195809 273314 39062488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 273314 350819 39062488+ 83 Linux


but in openbsd because of disklabel support only 15 from "a" to "p"
I cant use last two:

/dev/sda11 195809 273314 39062488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 273314 350819 39062488+ 83 Linux


in openbsd I have device nodes from "/dev/sd0a" to "/dev/sd0p",
and the "/dev/sd0p" is actually /dev/sda10 in linux and I can mount it,
but I need access to next "/dev/sda11" how can I get this?

thanks
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Old 2nd June 2011
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Hello thereisopenbsd, and welcome to daemonforums.org.

One possibility to access that partition is to edit the disklabel, and remove one of the other Linux partitions from it (preferably one you don't need to access), and replace it with the one you want to access. That means, change the offset and size parameters to define the partition you want.

While this is not hard to do, it can be quite scary the first times you try something like this. So, read the disklabel(8) man page thoroughly, and proceed with caution (double- or triple-check everything). If you make a mess, simply exit disklabel without saving changes, regroup, and start again.

I'm not enough of an expert to suggest anything else if this method isn't suitable for you.
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MBR partitions and BSD disklabel partitions are separate entities. But at disklabel initialization time, OpenBSD reads the MBR table and adds recognized "foreign" partitions to the disklabel. You may delete those from it, it will not affect the MBR table.
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