At 10:17 PM +0100 8/9/07, Timothy Murphy wrote: >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. That's just a design flaw in the driver, that it can't mount all the available partitions. Admittedly, the previous driver had its own larger limits. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
