From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Boyer Message-Id: <199901191033.EAA19277@cegt201.bradley.edu> Subject: Re: 15 partitions max prob revisited To: kjacob@wantree.com.au (Keith Jacob) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:33:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <199901190430.MAA01225@mule.wantree.com.au> from "Keith Jacob" at Jan 19, 99 03:00:04 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > 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 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]