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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:22:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807201822.25997.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720150510.GA1051@muc.de>

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On Sunday 20 July 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15
> partitions on a drive.  

From memory I recall that this has always been the limit for SATA/SCSI drives.  
For ATA drives I think it is 63?

Not sure if this is a Linux OS kernel restriction - what is the maximum number 
that MSWindows see?  I would think it is the same.
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Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-20 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-19 18:51 [gentoo-user] mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-19 19:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-19 21:12   ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-19 21:29     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-20 14:52       ` Mick
2008-07-20 19:11         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-20 19:25           ` Dale
2008-07-20 19:33             ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-20 19:58               ` Dale
2008-07-20 20:27                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-20 21:10                   ` Dale
2008-07-20 21:20                     ` Dale
2008-07-20 23:25                       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-20 20:12               ` Mick
2008-07-20 23:35                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-21  6:56                   ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-20 15:05       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-20 17:22         ` Mick [this message]
2008-07-20 18:49           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-20 18:48         ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-20 20:10         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-20 18:54       ` [gentoo-user] Solved!!! [Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist"] Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-19 19:11 ` [gentoo-user] mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? Daniel Pielmeier
2008-07-19 21:41   ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-19 21:53     ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-07-19 19:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Miernik
2008-07-19 21:22   ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-19 21:33     ` Graham Murray

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