On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:26:42PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > > This might indicate a problem with kernel 2.0.29 - I am not sure if it can > > address more than 16 partitions per disk. > > I don't have any SCSI disks, but it looks like that restriction still > exists in 2.1.130. In fact, you're limited to 14 because /dev/sda is > the entire disk and the extended partition (usually /dev/sda4) doesn't > store anything itself.
Oh no - I just saw it. Linux limits the number of partition per scsi drive to
14. That's not good!
> > This is easy. mke2fs is right - there is probably no /dev/sda18. Just create
> > it yourself:
> >
> > mknod /dev/sda16 b 8 16
> > mknod /dev/sda17 b 8 17
> > mknod /dev/sda18 b 8 18
>
> I don't think so. 8,16 is /dev/sdb, 8,17 is /dev/sdb1, etc.
You are right, sorry.
I think we should remove that limit to 16 partitions. That's stupid - 62
partition per ide drive and 14 per scsi drive...
cu
Torsten
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