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- From: chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu)
- Subject: Does Linux allow more than 8 partitions on a single drive?
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 02:30:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.023033.19640@nas.nasa.gov>
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- I set up DOS, OS2 boot manager and Linux as primary partitions and an
- extended partition w/ 3 DOS/OS2 logical drives and 1 Linux logical
- partition. I noticed that for scsi drive, Linux only has /dev/sda1 to
- /dev/sda8. Wonder if it is OK to create /dev/sda9 with mknod to allow
- more than 8 partitions under Linux.
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- Ing-Tsau Chiu chiu@nas.nasa.gov
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