In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work
very well.
I would recommend not going over /dev/hda16. You will notice that this
is as many as are pre-created for you in the /dev directory, and even
when I did mknod's to extend these, I had trouble.
I'd actually going from a setup of using lots & lots of paritions to a
minimal setup that puts almost everything on /. The main reason I used
to have lots of paritions was to protect me in case of a disk disaster,
but what I'm doing instead (now that I have such a big drive) is
reserving a parition of 1G that I can use to put a new install as a
"rescue parition" in case of disaster.
Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:41:04AM +0000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> > Where could I find some answers on the limits of partitioning your HD?
> > i.e. Number of primary & logical partitions allowed.
>
> Get a book about basic computing for DOS. 4 primary, max. 1 of the 4 may be
> an extended which can contain basically an unlimited number of logic
> partitions. Practically you can not create more than 63 partitions on an
> IDE disk and 16 on an SCSI disk. At least not with linux.
>
> Alexander Skwar
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