From: Brad Boyer <flar@cegt201.bradley.edu>
To: kjacob@wantree.com.au (Keith Jacob)
Cc: linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 15 partitions max prob revisited
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:33:38 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901191033.EAA19277@cegt201.bradley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901190430.MAA01225@mule.wantree.com.au> from "Keith Jacob" at Jan 19, 99 03:00:04 pm
> So the question is: can I add more devices (e.g. sdb16, sdb17, ...), or
> do I need to "reclaim" some HFS partitions if I want more ext2 ones? BTW,
> it was the installer that choked on the extra partitions I had created,
> so I would need to know how to fix that as well (if possible).
>
> I'm sure this is not a Powermac/Linux prob, per se, but perhaps others
> have had this problem and found a neat fix for it (although HFS+ is not a
> solution for me until the Mac HFS+ disk tools improve).
No, this is a Linux problem. You cannot have more than 15 partitions
on a drive because there are not device numbers allocated for anything
higher than partition number 15. So even if you create a partion 16,
there is no way to access it under Linux. This is the way that the
device numbers were allocated. As far as I know, there isn't a
reasonable way to change this either. Sorry I have to be the bearer
of bad news, but that's the way things currently stand.
Brad Boyer
flar@cegt201.bradley.edu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-19 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-19 15:00 15 partitions max prob revisited Keith Jacob
1999-01-19 10:33 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
1999-01-19 19:51 ` Ian K. Erickson
1999-01-19 22:07 ` Brian Downing
1999-01-20 3:43 ` Paul Mackerras
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