From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:43:22 +1100 Message-Id: <199901200343.OAA02278@tango.anu.edu.au> From: Paul Mackerras To: kjacob@wantree.com.au CC: linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-reply-to: <199901190430.MAA01225@mule.wantree.com.au> (message from Keith Jacob on Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:00:04 -0000) Subject: Re: 15 partitions max prob revisited Reply-to: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au References: <199901190430.MAA01225@mule.wantree.com.au> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Keith Jacob wrote: > So the question is: can I add more devices (e.g. sdb16, sdb17, ...), or > do I need to "reclaim" some HFS partitions if I want more ext2 ones? BTW, > it was the installer that choked on the extra partitions I had created, > so I would need to know how to fix that as well (if possible). The problem is in the encoding of the device minor number for scsi disks: only 4 bits are allocated to the partition number, so you can have at most 15 partitions (/dev/sdx uses partition number 0). Paul. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]