-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Riosa wrote: > Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I think that I have run out of partitions: >> >> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds6000ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.smric.help.doc/f2c_linuxscsilimit_2hsag9.html >> >> Although I have created up to 17 partitions on a SATA, I cannot mount >> them. :-( >> >> Before I start consolidating OS and data partitions to keep the number below >> 15, is there an alternative to this? >> > Not that I know, sata disk are managed like scsi ones limiting the > number of partitions to 1-15 . > > Someone, somewhere, one time told me that "lvm" could address that in > some manner but I've never seen how.
LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk partitions, you would simply create one large one the size of the disk. Then using LVM create as many virtual partitions as you need (I forget the correct LVM terminology, I believe it's logical volumes). There are many howto's out there on setting up LVM and explaining what it does, I would suggest having a look at that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD7ZynQv6DFiTKHhkRAiwoAJ98PVJprssDCFsrSnum+QGtlhOslgCffC8p FeOULJkkA8MdhB17E8kI8X8= =M7NT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
