2010. január 12. 0:47 napon "Carlos E. R."
On Monday, 2010-01-11 at 20:38 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote:
What is the maximum number of partitions that can reside on a hard disk and/or can be handled by openSUSE?
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In 10.3 you have unlimited (meaning 63) number of partitions (only four primary), if you use the traditional library with IDE disks (PATA), which gives names like hda, hdb, hdc, etc. If you use the new library (sda, sdb, sdc...), which emulates scsi, you have partitions 1..15, that's all. For SATA drives you need the new library, no choice.
This means if I use SATA disk (no matter which driver I select at boot since for SATA the new driver is used), I will not see more than 15 partitions on the SATA disk. On parellel ATA disk I will see all the partitions (up to 63) if I use the old driver. This applies to SUSE 10.3, 11.0 and 11.1 (kernel version < 2.28). Is this correct? What is the case with pre 10.3 systems? They use the old driver and see all IDE partitions, but how they handle SATA disks?
However, in 11.2 you have again unlimited (AFAIK, really unlimited) number of partitions with scsi names, ie, the new library. This is new, and I understand, pushed by suse/novell on the kernel :-)
But openSUSE 11.2 reference guide says (in chapter 2.1.1 Partition Types): "The maximum number of logical partitions is 15 on SCSI, SATA, and Firewire disks and 63 on (E)IDE disks." Which one is correct? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org