[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> is there a limit on the number of partitions you can place on an ide
> hard drive?
> I'm running a machine booting between:
> 98, NT, and RedHat, I wanted to add a fourth Linux variant,
> I think the most I was allowed to partition on ide0 (/dev/hda) was
> four partitions and the same for ide1 (/dev/hdb)...
You can have a max of 4 primary partitions, one of which can be an
extended parititon, containing logical partitions. The limit on PC
type machines is 64 partitions, assuming you have 3 primaries and 1
extended, this means you can create 60 logical partitions. (Why you'd
want to is a different issue - I did it once just to test out the
process and limits. )
> The machine has two 8 Gig Seagate IDE drives running as master and
> slave on the primary ide interface, hence /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
> Also, can I re-use the swap partition for Redhat Linux in the other
> Linux (Turbo Linux)....
Yes, the swap partition can be shared by multiple installations. Do
it all the time. Especially beneficial if the swap partitions are on
a different drive than the distro.
best
rickf
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