Re: Partitioning on i386

[urgrue <urgrue@tumsan.fi>]

Sounds like what you want is to create an extended partition. Into this 
you can create logical partitions (I just created ten, I don't know 
what the limit is).


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> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am currently facing the problem that I *do* have enough space on my
> disks
> to do pretty much anything I want (about 64GB in toto), but I've run
> out of
> partitions.
> 
> One of those is occupied by a NetBSD 1.6-installation. NetBSD, as well
> as
> other BSD-based operating systems, uses its own partitioning-scheme,
> allowing
> it to place several partitions into one primary partition within a
> DOS-based
> partition-table.
> 
> Can I do something similar with Linux? I think the kernel
> configuration menu
> mentions something like "Minix Sub-partitions". Are they what I might
> be
> looking for?
> In other words, can I somehow exceed the usual 7-partition-limit in
> DOS-partition-tables?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Benjamin
> 
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> eMail: krylon@gmx.net
> homepage: http://www.krylon.de
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