From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKccC-0003fE-Uy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:22:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F11DE05B6; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AA2E05B6 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so683962ika.2 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:22:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=CDrLQpz3Ki+QVZAsR7DZZiazIlAErEp5Ufo+gsbjz90=; b=oHWmsqXgOJI4dodDfp0+Mw+wj/YhPTUF9HbK5LB95VlP5LcUudc+AzRq0DLqOFqgSP 4LVgddkx8hKxb07oPjjBVj5BP7EOZXRu3lYCr88uQs2ClDuBCK8Mh76eGKz49rj571zJ wBbTkJ/Ts+MNCqNdUwpCUcX0THsNXsh06x8Bo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=DTNMHiSu7cXZaih35uGkObN30gpsZ3CCTH0ZfREiw29jXSFXVlDZRFzcBCGHAHO1X+ foopBxvNGuGcelSsvrWoSsIAwcWZ40qflbvCT4Er6Odm1zpaoqggWsufWLnyj6GZ6uzE cpSwpzw8UnRIE/LnPbI9lpPHmRtB5fRJmNuq0= Received: by 10.210.133.19 with SMTP id g19mr2377758ebd.83.1216574549506; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [212.159.46.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f13sm204108gvd.2.2008.07.20.10.22.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:22:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> <20080720150510.GA1051@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20080720150510.GA1051@muc.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart67588497.S3s6uXQzGe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200807201822.25997.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 07104703-e2d4-4944-855c-c8085ab08ca8 X-Archives-Hash: 38fc2b9c553118bc0088b0840452ae40 --nextPart67588497.S3s6uXQzGe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =20 =46rom memory I recall that this has always been the limit for SATA/SCSI dr= ives. =20 =46or ATA drives I think it is 63? Not sure if this is a Linux OS kernel restriction - what is the maximum num= ber=20 that MSWindows see? I would think it is the same. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart67588497.S3s6uXQzGe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEUEABECAAYFAkiDdFEACgkQ5Fp0QerLYPfG2ACYtlB09WUZhwAEJOExpnSKK+po 9gCfa6sR3boNUHkLsDizFxb3o2rhVXE= =JZzA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart67588497.S3s6uXQzGe--