From: "Scott Taylor" <scott@dctchambers.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitioning on i386
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:53:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3732.66.183.196.224.1060332817.squirrel@dctchambers.com> (raw)
Jon Fullmer said:
> I believe you are correct, Andrew, when dealing with SCSI drives. But
> (if
> I'm not mistaken) with IDE drives, the maximum is 40 total partitions
> (3
> primary 1 extended 37 logical).
man fdisk
RTFM
It has nothing to do with SCSI or IDE, only primary partitions are
limited. Most Linux installs allow for 37 partitions by making nodes
/dev/hd?0 - /dev/hd?36. Doesn't mean you can't create more.
--
Scott
long .signature files are annoying
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-08 8:53 Scott Taylor [this message]
2003-08-08 12:39 ` Partitioning on i386 Jon Fullmer
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2003-08-08 10:04 Ramdas, Venkata (MED, TCS)
2003-08-08 15:25 ` Scott Taylor
2003-08-08 8:55 Scott Taylor
2003-08-08 8:02 Ramdas, Venkata (MED, TCS)
2003-08-07 16:39 Ramdas, Venkata (MED, TCS)
2003-08-07 17:01 ` Scott Taylor
2003-08-07 17:01 ` teddymills
2003-08-07 7:56 Benjamin Walkenhorst
2003-08-07 9:33 ` urgrue
2003-08-07 12:25 ` Benjamin Walkenhorst
2003-08-07 12:42 ` Andrew Kelly
2003-08-08 5:01 ` Jon Fullmer
2003-08-07 13:26 ` urgrue
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