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[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Istvan Gabor said the following on 01/11/2010 02:38 PM:

> Hello:
>
> What is the maximum number of partitions that can reside on a hard disk 
> and/or can be handled by openSUSE?
> (I know that max 4 primary, of which one can be extended, and the extended 
> one has logical partitions.)
> I read somewhere that some version of openSUSE can handle only a limited 
> number of partitons (~10-12) if a given driver (libata or not the libata or 
> ?) is choosen to handle disks. But I can't recall where I read this and in 
> what extent it is correct. I've read the release notes of 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 
> but did not find anything related. I am planning to make more than 10 
> partitions and I would like to see clearly.
> I am using openSUSE 10.3 and experimenting with 11.1 and 11.2.

Your best approach is to set up a basic boot partition and then a LVM
partition.   You can then create, dynamically, without even needing to
reboot, as many partitions in the LVM as you wish.  If you run out of
space then you can add another drive and add that the the LVM and try
things like mirroring, striping and so forth.

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