On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Aaron Kulkis wrote:-
Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Yes, but the snag is that the number of partitions available in linux has been lowered to 15. If you do that and have more than one or two operating systems, you will hit the limit soon. That's a SATA or PATA limit isn't it?
(IDE) PATA disk drives can have up to 255 partitions,
IDE drives can hold upto 63 partitions.
with everything under SCSI emulation now, the SCSI 15-partition limit is applied to everything ( :-/ ).
Unless you continue to use the old IDE drivers, or use LVM. The last system I performed a fresh install upon has the following layout: /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 extended /dev/sda5 / /dev/sda6 /root /dev/sda7 /home /dev/sda8 /usr /dev/sda9 /var /dev/sda10 /var/log /dev/sda11 /tmp /dev/sda12 LVM /dev/sdb1 LVM Apart from allowing me grow both /opt, and especially /srv, as required, it also lets me span drives for the file system /media/backups, which holds backups of my sources packages. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a1 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org