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From: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Subject: Re: partitions
Date: 14 Aug 2004 10:29:23 +0200
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"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