12 is the max extended partitions my friend 12 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:59 PM
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Subject: Re: number of partitions


Andrew Bacchi wrote:

>Is there a max limit to the number of partitions I can have on a
>system?  I have a RAID 1 system disk array and a large RAID 5 data
>array.  I would like to cut up the data array into some number of
>partitions.  I thought I heard of the max being 15 partitions for both
>system and data.  Thanks.
>

Depends on your controller.  You can have up to 15 partitions on a SCSI 
disk, 7 on a DAC RAID controller, and apparently (judging from the 
device files) up to 32 on an IDE disk.




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