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
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4983 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 27 4983 39817102+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 27 1332 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1333 2638 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2639 2900 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 2901 3162 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 3163 3424 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 3425 3686 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 3687 3817 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/hda12 3818 3883 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda13 3884 3947 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda14 3948 4011 514048+ 83 Linux
This system has ten logical partitions in the extended partition
/dev/hda2.
Cheers,
John
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