El dom, 20-10-2002 a las 20:28, David Lerner escribió: > The util-linux RPM includes fdisk. The original fdisk allows a > maximum of 60 partitions, but Mandrake has patched it to handle a > maximum of 16 partitions. It will truncate the partitin table to 16 > partitions if you have created more than 16 partitions with a > different program (eg. cfdisk). > > There must be a reason why Mandrake has chosen to patch fdisk in > this manner, but I have can't imagine why. Can someone enlighten me?
Do you have a SCSI disk? If yes, then that's the problem; you have a limit of 16 partition in a SCSI disk (and this limit is not a decision of Mandrake, I had the same problem with Redhat). BTW, in IDE disks you can have as many as 64 partitions. Toshiro.
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