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Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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>> Hi All, |
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>> I think that I have run out of partitions: |
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>> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds6000ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.smric.help.doc/f2c_linuxscsilimit_2hsag9.html |
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>> Although I have created up to 17 partitions on a SATA, I cannot mount |
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>> them. :-( |
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>> Before I start consolidating OS and data partitions to keep the number below |
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>> 15, is there an alternative to this? |
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> Not that I know, sata disk are managed like scsi ones limiting the |
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> number of partitions to 1-15 . |
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> Someone, somewhere, one time told me that "lvm" could address that in |
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> some manner but I've never seen how. |
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LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk |
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partitions, you would simply create one large one the size of the disk. |
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Then using LVM create as many virtual partitions as you need (I forget |
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the correct LVM terminology, I believe it's logical volumes). There are |
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many howto's out there on setting up LVM and explaining what it does, I |
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would suggest having a look at that. |
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