From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Taylor" Subject: Re: Partitioning on i386 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3732.66.183.196.224.1060332817.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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