On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:43:39 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:15:07 -0600 Rick Sivernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | What is the max number of partitions allowed in a gentoo system? > | I jave the gen-kernel source 2.4.20r9 on a PIII 5333 coppermine CPU. > > Depends. For a dos partition table, I think it's 15 or 16 per disc. For > sparc disclabels, it's 7 (plus the special one) per disc. For other > disclabels, it's something else. If you cheat and use LVM it's something > silly like 255 per volumegroup, so you could get several thousand per > disc. > > Of course, you'll run out of device numbers after a while anyway, unless > you switch to udev. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh > Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > > Ciaran I am using reiserfs on I86 system. -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
