On 2008/01/28 14:01 (GMT+0100) M9. apparently typed:
Carlos E. R. schreef:
| Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only | allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using | the scsi device name convention.
| In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several | partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to | a single partition. But the developers want us to put every thing into a
It isn't any fault of SUSE distro developers. The kernel developers are the perpetrators of the SCSI partition limit in libata.
| few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot | of data to have on a single partition.
| For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow.
Ofcourse. But maybe it is meanth for simple users? I myself *need* more partitions, to test also. Now i want to see how the new 11.0 installs, but i have an updated factory. I do not want to overwrite that, nor the working 10.2, that is around, and can be used if all others fail, which sometimes happens... /boot i have seperate, and that keeps all the nessesary files for all the platforms...(until now, this saved me lots of trouble..)
Even in current 11.0 Factory you can still have up to 62 partitions per HD just as before if you follow the instruction in the 10.3 release notes. http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#09 Over the past few days I added 10.3 and Factory to a system already having 10.0, 10.1 & 10.2 and 19 partitions. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/dfsee/gx260L05.txt Of several systems I have Factory installed on only one is using libata, and I did that only to experiment with LVM. -- "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org