On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:45:08AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:39:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. > > > > > not sure, but this sounds very strange to me. > > afaik, you can nest extended patitions as much as you want. > > Could be, but why would you want 10 partitions? :) > > And does the kernel support this (yes I know fdisk can easily support > something like this, but that doesn't mean the kernel does). >
Works for me... $ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda5 792800 138536 613300 18% / /dev/hda1 7746 1536 5810 21% /boot /dev/hda6 1189050 185 1127418 0% /home /dev/hda7 1189050 101 1127502 0% /var/spool/mail /dev/hda8 497667 13 471952 0% /var/spool/pop /dev/hda9 1189050 1366 1126237 0% /var/log /dev/hda10 497667 13 471952 0% /tmp /dev/hdc1 7956307 2722158 4821682 36% /ftp $ /sbin/swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda2 partition 128516 2108 -1 /dev/hda3 partition 128516 0 -2 $ I'd have even more if I'd made /usr and /usr/local separate partitions, was hosting a news server, or had more space for ftp. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
