On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 15:26 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Karl Larsen wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > There are issues about how you partition a giant hard drive like > > > that. I forget just how many partitions your allowed but it is small > > > compared to the size. I guess your the IT expert and you have REAL > > > Experience to back your support for LVM. > > > > 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 convinced of that infinite limit: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=150073 anyone want to clarify that? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
