On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Well, the "x" in your example can take the RE form "[a-z]+". For > > example, we have some storage arrays with, oh, 130 LUNs on them. They > > appear as /dev/sda[1-15] through /dev/sdiv[1-15] > > But you won't get this with the standard Fedora installation, which > I assume is what people are talking about. You will be told you have > disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, or whatever, and asked how you want to > partition them. not to harp on this, but can someone confirm that, with standard hard disks and partitioning, the limits are: 1) 4 primary partitions 2) only one of which can be extended 3) that extended partition can hold up to 12 logical partitions (this limit is different from IDE to SCSI, as i recall) in any event, it's simply not true that you can have an unbounded number of logical partitions on a single drive, unless something's changed drastically lately. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
