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From: Francesco Riosa <BastianBalthazarBux@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:00:43
Message-Id: 43ED9868.7000200@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > I think that I have run out of partitions:
5 >
6 > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds6000ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.smric.help.doc/f2c_linuxscsilimit_2hsag9.html
7 >
8 > Although I have created up to 17 partitions on a SATA, I cannot mount
9 > them. :-(
10 >
11 > Before I start consolidating OS and data partitions to keep the number below
12 > 15, is there an alternative to this?
13 >
14 Not that I know, sata disk are managed like scsi ones limiting the
15 number of partitions to 1-15 .
16
17 Someone, somewhere, one time told me that "lvm" could address that in
18 some manner but I've never seen how.
19
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Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions Shawn Haggett <podge@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>