On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: > > > > [..Deleted stuff for brevity..] > > > > > Are you merely a stickler for detail, or does it concern you that > > > devices exist which have little (if any) practical use and are > > > potentially problematic? > > > > Yes, I'm afraid I'm a stickler for detail. It looks like the (old, if > > that's what you used; it's certainly what I used) installation disks are > > broken if they have /dev/sda16 on them. If /you/ had created /device/, then > > the problem might have only been present on your system. That's what I > > understood Philippe to be implying with "BTW, you have created sda16 > > yourself didn't you :-)".
> So, I suppose that creating 16 scsi devices was merely an oversight, and > likewise that creating 20 ide devices was roughly the same, thus devices > 16-20 serve no practical purpose (unless obfuscation counts), correct? /usr/doc/util-linux/README.fdisk.gz says: You can have up to 64 partitions on a single IDE disk, or up to 16 partitions on a single SCSI disk, at least as far as Linux is concerned; in practice you will rarely want so many. Maybe that's why the debian maintainer created 16 scsi devices? David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
