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Re: [opensuse] Questions for Partitioning guru's - Solved
- From: Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:00:01 -0400
- Message-id: <1189526401.29651.89.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:37 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2007-09-11 at 09:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
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> > On 2007/09/11 14:39 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
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> > > Notice: beware of adding too many partitions! If you have more than 16 you
> >
> > The correct statement is more than *15*, as 15 are supported by SCSI, while
> > 16 are not.
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> You are probably right.
>
> It is fom 0 to 15, which makes 16; but the 0 is the whole disk. So it must
> be 15 partitions.
>
Wrong! sda0 is a partition as well as hda0 is a partition _NOT_ the
whole disk. The whole disk would be sda or hda (without the number).
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Ken Schneider
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> The Tuesday 2007-09-11 at 09:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > On 2007/09/11 14:39 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
> >
> > > Notice: beware of adding too many partitions! If you have more than 16 you
> >
> > The correct statement is more than *15*, as 15 are supported by SCSI, while
> > 16 are not.
>
> You are probably right.
>
> It is fom 0 to 15, which makes 16; but the 0 is the whole disk. So it must
> be 15 partitions.
>
Wrong! sda0 is a partition as well as hda0 is a partition _NOT_ the
whole disk. The whole disk would be sda or hda (without the number).
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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