Subject: Re: Does Linux allow more than 8 partitions on a single drive?
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In article <1992Aug19.023033.19640@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
>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.
Yes - you can get 15 partitions on a SCSI drive,
with the first four being the "normal" real partitions,
the last 11 being extended partitions.
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