Rick Stevens wrote: >> Umm, AIUI the standard way of partitioning drives has no limit >> on the number of extended partitions one may create. > > Uhm, not exactly. You get up to four primary partitions, one of which > can be an extended partition. Inside that extended partition you can > have as many "logical" partitions as you wish. I'm not sure if that is any longer true. Can one have as many partitions as you like in /dev/sda ? I had an idea one was constrained to SCSI's 16 partitions. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
