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 fil
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:17:52PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > The limitation of 16 partitions on a SCSI disk (err, make that 15, since
> > the whole-disk device takes up a minor number, too) is determined by the
> > device number allocation.
>
> [opens the hood, like I should have before m
> The limitation of 16 partitions on a SCSI disk (err, make that 15, since
> the whole-disk device takes up a minor number, too) is determined by the
> device number allocation.
More specific, the kernel uses a certain number of bits in in the minor
number to encode the partition, the rest for th
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:19:00AM +1000, Ross Hamilton wrote:
> Interestingly, he believes that the problem would apply equally to both
> SCSI and IDE disks since (by his recollection) the the partitioning code
> is implemented at a layer above the drivers and so would likely be the
> same for
On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 11:27 PM, Ethan Benson wrote:
i don't know for sure, but i know of people who have been running with
more then 15 partitions. i don't have a spare IDE disk to test with.
Just a quick follow up.
I have been in touch with Eryk Vershen, author of pdisk, to seek h
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:15:44PM +1000, Ross Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > ... i think your idea that your limited to 15 partitions is
> > erroneous.
> >
>
> I have been living under the same impression as the original poster. The
> following is from the pdisk manual entry:
>
> Creating mor
... i think your idea that your limited to 15 partitions is
erroneous.
I have been living under the same impression as the original poster. The
following is from the pdisk manual entry:
Creating more than fifteen partitions is not advised.
There is currently a bug in the
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:13:54PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> In another thread related to ReiserFS, it has been mentioned
> that it is a good idea to put various items in their own partitions
> or even discs! This is fine if you have lots of discs or partitions
> handy.
>
> On my iBook, I have th
In another thread related to ReiserFS, it has been mentioned
that it is a good idea to put various items in their own partitions
or even discs! This is fine if you have lots of discs or partitions
handy.
On my iBook, I have theoretically got up to 15 partitions
(is it possible to have 16 if only
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