partitions

partitions

[Paul Gimpelj]

Is it possible to have more than 4 partitions on a 160gb ide drive?


thanks.

Re: partitions

[Paul Gimpelj]

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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Re: partitions

[Dr. Keith G. Bowden]

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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Re: partitions

[Urs Thuermann]

"Paul Gimpelj" <pgimpelj@sympatico.ca> writes:

> Is it possible to have more than 4 partitions on a 160gb ide drive?

Except for machines that can boot multiple OSs, there is no need for
many partitions on the drive.  All my machines have only one or two
partitions and use LVM or LVM2 with devmapper.

urs