RE: Partitions Compression

[Paul Sims <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

I used (almost) deliberately. Most Linux hobbyists/students (and most
sysadmins for that matter) will never use more than a handful of the 64
logical partitions available, and so I stand by my original statement. Yes,
the limit is finite but almost inconsequential.

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.

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