On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 16:45:40 (-0800), Joseph Loo wrote: > On 11/11/2016 04:39 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 18:36:15 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Friday, November 11, 2016 04:58:41 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >>> Le 11/11/2016 à 22:17, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > >>>> The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical > >>>> ones in one of the primary partitions. > >>> > >>> Huh ? The number of logical partitions is unlimited. > >> > >> Ok, just to be part of this ongoing saga, I think the number of logical > >> partitions is limited to something like 12 or 16 (or maybe the total > >> number of > >> partitions, primary plus logical is limited to 16. (And maybe that's a > >> limit > >> of one or more OSs rather than a universal limit.) > > > > That doesn't seem to square with > > http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?147959-How-to-install-and-boot-145-operating-systems-in-a-PC > > (Scroll down to "Partition Tables".) > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > Your URL is talking about gpt scheme. The limitation is in the MSDOS > partition scheme
You only read the updates at the top! > > (Scroll down to "Partition Tables".) ... and see /dev/hda4 367 36483 290109802+ 5 Extended ... /dev/hda60 34658 35265 4883728+ 83 Linux Cheers, David.