On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Andy Eager wrote:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 204 1638598+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2
I am running out of space on one of my machines, I *think* I have more
room on this hard drive, but I havent used fdisk much and I don't want to
lose any data. Can someone
please tell me if I have any room left that I can make another partition
with. Do I have some space from Block 633(4?) to
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I am running out of space on one of my machines, I *think* I have more
room on this hard drive, but I havent used fdisk much and I don't want to
lose any data. Can someone
please tell me if I have any room left that I can make another
Andy Eager wrote:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 204 1638598+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 205 217104422+ 82 Linux swap
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:34:49AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
At most you can only have 4 logical partitions in an extended partition
You can have more than four:
[root@wombat ~]# uname -srm
Linux 2.2.19-7.0.15 i686
[root@wombat ~]# fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Thanka for the replies Andy, Matt and John.
I shall put them to use tonight!
Cheers
Tony
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John Clarke wrote:
You can have more than four:
Well that's news to me.
Thanks,
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Matthew Dalton wrote:
John Clarke wrote:
You can have more than four:
I suspect that your are thinking about Primary partitions.
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The limit of 4 applies to primary/extended partitions; you can only have 4
primary and extended partitions combined, but this doesn't apply to logical
partitions inside an extended.
Robert
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Matthew Dalton wrote:
John Clarke wrote:
You can have more than four:
Well
Terry Collins wrote:
Matthew Dalton wrote:
John Clarke wrote:
You can have more than four:
I suspect that your are thinking about Primary partitions.
Actually, I'd thought for a while that the limitation for both was the
same... can't remember where I picked that up from :/
Anyway,
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:52:27AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Depending on which web page you read, the limits are something like 23
for DOS/Windows (it's an alphabet thing, ie 26 - 3),
I'd expect 26 - 2 (`A' and `B'), and the limit would be total number of
partitions in the system, not
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On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 11:59, John Clarke wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:52:27AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Depending on which web page you read, the limits are something like 23
for DOS/Windows (it's an alphabet thing, ie 26 - 3),
I'd expect 26 - 2 (`A' and `B'), and the limit
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:10:16PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
But is the IDE limitation in the kernel, or a hardware limit?
Kernel.
Cheers,
John
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I know that the SCSI limitation was mainly due to, er.. poor design of
the SCSI system in 2.2. (part of the reason behind
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