Ian wrote:

>Incidentally, mkpart_exe offered some 16 million sectors for 
>partitioning, which by my reckoning is about 8Gb, though when I put all 
>this is one partition and formatted it I only got 4Gb.  However, if I 
>made two 8 million sector partitions I found I could format them both 
>to 4Gb, and everything appears to be working correctly, and the extra 4 
>is a bonus 'cos I thought I could only have 4Gb max for QDOS.  It does 
>mean however, that when I eventually get around to putting Linux on the 
>remainder I'll only have two partitions available for it (I normally 
>prefer a smaller separate root partition and a larger /usr partition).

If you have 1...3 SMSQ partitions, you can have as many Linux partitions as
you like.

Richard wrote:

>SMSQ has not been tested accessing more than 3 partitions per drive.

4 SMSQ partitions worked for me when there were no other (=Linux) partitions.

Peter



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