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 1KKdxT-00033z-MX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:48:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49F06E0713; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:48:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E295E0713 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:48:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1AF463AC918 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:48:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:48:28 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? Message-ID: <20080720194828.7f045282@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080720150510.GA1051@muc.de> References: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> <20080719211213.GA1073@muc.de> <20080720150510.GA1051@muc.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0cvs26 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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="Sig_/krfDC8CCM4IhywpHbgTl.FJ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 6a3ceb8e-b9c9-4ea2-8496-b6e259b234c7 X-Archives-Hash: fc610ad3022989fb0d78ba0e5dbb5eec --Sig_/krfDC8CCM4IhywpHbgTl.FJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick c:>Press Enter to Exit --Sig_/krfDC8CCM4IhywpHbgTl.FJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiDiH8ACgkQum4al0N1GQNS9wCfarPdibSfCgaTL/V9cJEBAn7p Yn4AnREn2PqopWUm/fWWiG1tErPeDXzk =upNc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/krfDC8CCM4IhywpHbgTl.FJ--