From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
To: kjacob@wantree.com.au
Cc: linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 15 partitions max prob revisited
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:43:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901200343.OAA02278@tango.anu.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901190430.MAA01225@mule.wantree.com.au> (message from Keith Jacob on Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:00:04 -0000)
Keith Jacob <kjacob@wantree.com.au> wrote:
> 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).
The problem is in the encoding of the device minor number for scsi
disks: only 4 bits are allocated to the partition number, so you can
have at most 15 partitions (/dev/sdx uses partition number 0).
Paul.
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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
1999-01-19 19:51 ` Ian K. Erickson
1999-01-19 22:07 ` Brian Downing
1999-01-20 3:43 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
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