RE: Partitions Compression

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> ps == Paul Sims <psims [at] lombard.co.uk> writes:

ps> Four PRIMARY partitions are the max. With an EXTENDED
ps> partition you can have (almost) unlimited LOGICAL partitions.

You've been counting in binary for too long; 63 total partitions isn't
unlimited, and that means you have to use *IDE drives. On SCSI you
can only have 15. It's not that hard to overrun these numbers in some
applications.

See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/major.{txt,tex} (same info, different
formats) for more info.

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