Rick Stevens wrote: >> > 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. > > SCSI doesn't give a horse's patoot about partitions...it only knows > device numbers, the LUNs inside the devices and the block numbers inside > those LUNs. How those blocks are used is up to the application. I'm talking about SCSI under Fedora/Redhat . There is certainly a 16 partition limit to true SCSI discs, unless it has been changed recently. I have a SCSI-only machine running Fedora, and Redhat 9 and early Fedora Cores definitely only allowed 16 partitions. (I haven't tried lately, as I got a second SCSI disk so no longer needed a lot of partitions.) Incidentally, the limit was actually 15 at installation time. One could add a 16th partition after installation. I assume this was a glitch in the installation code. Do you actually have more than 16 partitions on one disk, under Fedora 7? -- 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
