On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:10 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15
> partitions on a drive.  It's a bit like the old MS-DOS restriction to
> 512 MB all over again.  Hey, guys, hard drives nowadays are like 200
> gig, not 512meg.  What's so wrong about having partitions with sizes
> 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb, with maybe 100Mb for a boot partition?

Nothing, which is why the kernel includes LVM, allowing you to have many
more filesystems on a disk.


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Neil Bothwick

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