Ethan Benson wrote:
eh? since when do ibooks use scsi disks? in linux ide disks may have up to 63 partitions. MacOS your only limit is the number of file descriptors available, eventually if you have so many HFS partitions mounted (each with all that desktopdb crap open) you run out of file descriptors and thus can't do anything. since linux partitions are invisable to Macos they don't cause that problem. the mac partition table format has no real limit on the number of partitions, you can keep creating them until you run out of space in the partition table partition (which is 31K by default).
Thanks for the tip. It would appear that the whole lot does indeed work as you say (at least for the 2.4.4 kernel I have), once I figured out to look in /proc for the majorand minor numbers to feed mknod (the kernel will happily find the first 20 partitions, and then stop looking). I guess there is only one way to find out if there is some hidden, nasty bug---try it. Cheers, Kin Hoong _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
