Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> 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? > From what I understand, there are a max of 16 device entries created for a SCSI hard drive. (sdx and sdx1 through sdx15) So while you can have more partitions then that, Linux will not let you access them when using the SCSI code to access the drive. I believe it is a driver problem more then a udev problem. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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