On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
Well, the "x" in your example can take the RE form "[a-z]+". For example, we have some storage arrays with, oh, 130 LUNs on them. They appear as /dev/sda[1-15] through /dev/sdiv[1-15]
But you won't get this with the standard Fedora installation, which I assume is what people are talking about. You will be told you have disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, or whatever, and asked how you want to partition them.
not to harp on this, but can someone confirm that, with standard hard disks and partitioning, the limits are:
1) 4 primary partitions 2) only one of which can be extended 3) that extended partition can hold up to 12 logical partitions (this limit is different from IDE to SCSI, as i recall)
in any event, it's simply not true that you can have an unbounded number of logical partitions on a single drive, unless something's changed drastically lately.
rday