From: "Dr. Keith G. Bowden" <k.bowden@physics.bbk.ac.uk>
To: Paul Gimpelj <pgimpelj@sympatico.ca>, Phil White <cerise@armory.com>
Cc: linux-smp <linux-smp@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: partitions
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:00:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <016601c4810b$abb25130$0300a8c0@clitoris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 016401c480c0$30351d80$c901010a@zoom
The usual maximum is four under most PC Bios.
Others vary.
Keith Bowden
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gimpelj" <pgimpelj@sympatico.ca>
To: "Phil White" <cerise@armory.com>
Cc: "linux-smp" <linux-smp@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: partitions
> thanks,
> but is there not a way in the modern bios's to have a second primary
> partition table after the first one?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil White" <cerise@armory.com>
> To: "Paul Gimpelj" <pgimpelj@sympatico.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:12 PM
> Subject: Re: partitions
>
>
> > Not primary partitions, but you can have lots of partitions in an
extended
> > partition. I think the limit there is 32, giving a theoretical maximum
of
> > 128.
> >
> > -Phil/CERisE
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:57:48PM -0400, Paul Gimpelj wrote:
> > > Is it possible to have more than 4 partitions on a 160gb ide drive?
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
> > >
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2004-08-12 21:57 partitions Paul Gimpelj
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2004-08-12 23:00 ` partitions Paul Gimpelj
2004-08-13 8:00 ` Dr. Keith G. Bowden [this message]
2004-08-14 8:29 ` partitions Urs Thuermann
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