From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
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 19:48:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720194828.7f045282@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720150510.GA1051@muc.de>
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:10 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15
> partitions on a drive. It's a bit like the old MS-DOS restriction to
> 512 MB all over again. Hey, guys, hard drives nowadays are like 200
> gig, not 512meg. What's so wrong about having partitions with sizes
> 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb, with maybe 100Mb for a boot partition?
Nothing, which is why the kernel includes LVM, allowing you to have many
more filesystems on a disk.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 18:48 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
2008-07-20 18:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-20 18:48 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
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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