Re: partitions

The usual maximum is four under most PC Bios.

Others vary.

Keith Bowden


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gimpelj" <[email protected]>
To: "Phil White" <[email protected]>
Cc: "linux-smp" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: partitions


> thanks,
> but is there not a way in the modern bios's to have a second primary
> partition table after the first one?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil White" <[email protected]>
> To: "Paul Gimpelj" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:12 PM
> Subject: Re: partitions
>
>
> > Not primary partitions, but you can have lots of partitions in an
extended
> > partition.  I think the limit there is 32, giving a theoretical maximum
of
> > 128.
> >
> > -Phil/CERisE
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:57:48PM -0400, Paul Gimpelj wrote:
> > > Is it possible to have more than 4 partitions on a 160gb ide drive?
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
> > >
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