what if you have a head crash on that disk. Your reserve install isn't
going to do anything then.
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Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
>
> In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work
> very well.
> I would recommend not going over /dev/hda16. You will notice that this
> is as many as are pre-created for you in the /dev directory, and even
> when I did mknod's to extend these, I had trouble.
>
> I'd actually going from a setup of using lots & lots of paritions to a
> minimal setup that puts almost everything on /. The main reason I used
> to have lots of paritions was to protect me in case of a disk disaster,
> but what I'm doing instead (now that I have such a big drive) is
> reserving a parition of 1G that I can use to put a new install as a
> "rescue parition" in case of disaster.
>
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:41:04AM +0000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> > > Where could I find some answers on the limits of partitioning your HD?
> > > i.e. Number of primary & logical partitions allowed.
> >
> > Get a book about basic computing for DOS. 4 primary, max. 1 of the 4 may be
> > an extended which can contain basically an unlimited number of logic
> > partitions. Practically you can not create more than 63 partitions on an
> > IDE disk and 16 on an SCSI disk. At least not with linux.
> >
> > Alexander Skwar
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