On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:35, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Monday 14 April 2003 11:44 pm, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 13:38, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > I mean, Each Client has 250 Mbyte DiskSpace for ftp, > > > http, mail and LOGS and can not use more !!! > > > > > > But 200-300 partitions on ONE DISK ??? > > I'm a little late with this, but just thought that someone should > mention that there is some kind of limit on the number of partitions > per disk. It's something like 63 for IDE disks and 16 for SCSI disks > (but I could have that backwards).
EVMS or LVM could get around that limit. But there would still be a limit to the number of partitions, you should be able to get 255 partitions at least (not that you would want to - there are better solutions as have been discussed). -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
