Rick Stevens wrote:
You get up to four primary partitions, one of which can be an extended partition. Inside that extended partition you can have as many "logical" partitions as you wish.
I'm not sure if that is any longer true. Can one have as many partitions as you like in /dev/sda ? I had an idea one was constrained to SCSI's 16 partitions.
SCSI doesn't give a horse's patoot about partitions...it only knows device numbers, the LUNs inside the devices and the block numbers inside those LUNs. How those blocks are used is up to the application.
I'm talking about SCSI under Fedora/Redhat . There is certainly a 16 partition limit to true SCSI discs, unless it has been changed recently. I have a SCSI-only machine running Fedora, and Redhat 9 and early Fedora Cores definitely only allowed 16 partitions. (I haven't tried lately, as I got a second SCSI disk so no longer needed a lot of partitions.)
Incidentally, the limit was actually 15 at installation time. One could add a 16th partition after installation. I assume this was a glitch in the installation code.
Do you actually have more than 16 partitions on one disk, under Fedora 7?