On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:15:44PM +1000, Ross Hamilton wrote: > > > > ... i think your idea that your limited to 15 partitions is > > erroneous. > > > > I have been living under the same impression as the original poster. The > following is from the pdisk manual entry: > > Creating more than fifteen partitions is not advised. > There is currently a bug in the some (all?) of the kernels > which causes access to the whole disk fail if more than > fifteen partitions are in the map.
yeah well look at the date of the man page: MkLinux DR2 20 December 1996 > I am sure the debian mac-fdisk man page contains the same caveat > (certainly we have been advised on this list that they are versions of one > and the same program). > > Granted, the above reference to "the kernel" is ambiguous; in likelyhood > the author means mach rather than linux. For safety's sake, however, I am > inclined to respect the suggested limit. Probably anyone multi-booting > with MacOSX or other BSD-derivative would be advised to do the same until > this situation is better clarified. i don't know for sure, but i know of people who have been running with more then 15 partitions. i don't have a spare IDE disk to test with. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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