From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Kelly Subject: Re: Partitioning on i386 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:42:09 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F324921.F56D6FB0@transparency.org> References: <20030807093314.GA1197@fede2.tumsan.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Benjamin Walkenhorst Cc: urgrue , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Donnerstag, 7. August 2003 11:33 urgrue wrote: > > Hello, > > > 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). > > Okay, I did not know you can put as many logical partitions into an extended > partition as you want. I thought you could create just 4. Careful, there is a limit on on logical partitions, too. You are allowed 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions + 1 extended partion. The extended partion is a container partion for logical partitions and, as such, not usable for storage. Within the extended partition you may create up to 12 logical partitions. So, 15 usable parts. are all you'll get. Unless of course I'm wrong. ;-) Andy