On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/01/12 11:19 (GMT+0100) Istvan Gabor composed:
11.2 Reference guide says (Chapter 2.1.1): "The maximumnumber of logical partitions is 15 on SCSI, SATA, and Firewire disks and 63 on (E)IDE disks."
This part of the doc didn't get the update it needed. 11.2 has a 2.6.31 kernel. The post 11.1/2.6.27 kernels lifted the libata (necessary for SCSI, SATA, Firewire) restriction from 15 to (AFAIK) 63.
There is no longer a partition limit. It's really unlimited (for most practical purposes) now. E.g. on my test disk I have: brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 301 Jan 12 14:50 /dev/sda204 Partitions just get free minor numbers assigned dynamically. Steffen -- Das Nichtrauchen entfernt uns von der Zivilisation und setzt den Mann mit seinem Dackel gleich. -- J. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org