-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2010-01-12 at 23:20 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
By the way. The typical wording is 16 partitions maximum. Or perhaps 15. It is less, in fact. The limit is that you can have partitions numbers 1 through 15 (0 means the whole disk). Numbers 1 to 4 are primary, and one of those primaries has to be an extended partitions. Thus you get 3 primaries and 5..15 logical, ie, 11 logical. Total: 14 partitions, as Felix says.
Isn't that only with the DOS partition table? A GPT setup will AFAIK offer a lot more.
Er... no. The "clasical" partition table is not limited⁽¹⁾; it is the operating system which has limits. In linux the limit was due to using a combination of major/minor number for the /dev directory, using only a byte. ⁽¹⁾ Being strict, the partition table is limited to 4 partitions. As that is not enough, somebody invented the trick of using one fake partition (extended p) containing a chained list of partitions (logical partitions) which is unlimted, being a linked list. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktNEaUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WeBQCfXa+Hw1ll9r+SlP35nO7DNllB q+sAn2aJvzwfqDMK4TvuG9BXi1oEyjbt =BqAE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----