From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F7pgR-0007qQ-5h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:00:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1B7xOX0015995; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:59:24 GMT Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it (85-18-21-122.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.21.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1B7tLvP017106 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:55:23 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4247ADAF1 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:55:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (db [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29810-09 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:55:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.4.153] (host-4-153.pnpitalia.it [192.168.4.153]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDAC7AD138 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:55:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43ED9868.7000200@pnpitalia.it> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:55:20 +0100 From: Francesco Riosa User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060114) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at db X-Archives-Salt: e49e0ac9-9307-4ae3-b4fe-c95560852e17 X-Archives-Hash: a3ec0689f5a1299dd7aba37213eaab3f Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I think that I have run out of partitions: > > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds6000ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.smric.help.doc/f2c_linuxscsilimit_2hsag9.html > > Although I have created up to 17 partitions on a SATA, I cannot mount > them. :-( > > Before I start consolidating OS and data partitions to keep the number below > 15, is there an alternative to this? > Not that I know, sata disk are managed like scsi ones limiting the number of partitions to 1-15 . Someone, somewhere, one time told me that "lvm" could address that in some manner but I've never seen how. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list