I have had repeated failures trying to use logical partition 10 e.g. sda10. Currently using Ubuntu 11.04, I used its standard package manager to download and install gparted. I ran gparted and it showed me (correctly) that I have primary partitions sda1, sda2 and sda3 (sda3 is the extended partition), and logical partitions sda5 through sda9.
Tried to create sda10. Gparted grayed out the choice of a logical partition, but was willing to create the new partition as my fourth primary partition, sda4. In the past, gparted did not prevent you from creating a logical sda10, but you could not use it, and it sometimes showed up as partition 0 and sometimes did not show up at all. Looks like gparted (and maybe other partitioning code floating around the Linux world) has an undocumented limit of single digits for logical partitions. I'm using only a 300GB disk, but I like installing different varieties of Linux to test them. Of course, I use only one of them at a time, plus Windows, for serious work, and I use one of my partitions as a data partition, available to all my installed OSs, for persistent (year after year) file storage. My profession? Software developer, for the Linux/Unix world, also the IBM mainframe world, Windows of course, and formerly the DEC world. In the days of 1 and 2 terabyte hard disks, the apparently absolute limitation to 4 primary partitions plus (if one of your primaries is the extended partion) no more than five logicals sda5-sda9 is ridiculous. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244350 Title: Wrong detection of hard disk partitions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pysdm/+bug/244350/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
