From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Fullmer Subject: Re: Partitioning on i386 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 23:01:01 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <3F324921.F56D6FB0@transparency.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3F324921.F56D6FB0@transparency.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Andrew Kelly , Benjamin Walkenhorst Cc: urgrue , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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). - Jon on 8/7/03 6:42 AM, Andrew Kelly at akelly@transparency.org wrote: > > > 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >