what partitioning rule am I not aware of?

[jdow]

From: "Ian Chapman" <packages at amiga-hardware.com>

> Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> 
>>> Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and
>>> bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-).
>>>
>> Try parted.  Make sure you make the extended partition go to the end of 
>> the disk and then fill up the space in between.  Also, fdisk in Debian 
>> will allow you to go beyond 15 (I have 26 total on /dev/hda).  
> 
> That's normal though, ATA/IDE disks aren't subject to the same 
> limitations in Linux.

I remember getting rather annoyed at the "'oids" at RedHat when they
substituted a crippled fdisk for the one that works right. It still
leaves me annoyed even though I do not need it to be the full up
version except VERY rarely. (At least put in a commandline parameter
that says "I really know what I am doing so let me be "an ass" if I
want to. I accept the consequences.")

{^_^}