On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:15:07 -0600 Rick Sivernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What is the max number of partitions allowed in a gentoo system? | I jave the gen-kernel source 2.4.20r9 on a PIII 5333 coppermine CPU.
Depends. For a dos partition table, I think it's 15 or 16 per disc. For sparc disclabels, it's 7 (plus the special one) per disc. For other disclabels, it's something else. If you cheat and use LVM it's something silly like 255 per volumegroup, so you could get several thousand per disc. Of course, you'll run out of device numbers after a while anyway, unless you switch to udev. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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