New device drivers don't see beyond 15 partitions in fc7

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Dec 22 07:32:53 UTC 2006


Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 17:57 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> With the change from traditional /dev/hd* type device nodes to /dev/sd* 
>> type nodes, I see that the highest partition number that can be used is 
>> 15.  Will this change so that higher numbers will be available?  I do 
>> have a system that has a drive with almost 30 small partitions used in a 
>> research effort and the number of partitions has not been an issue thru fc6.
>>
>> -- 
> 
> Use LVM.
> Trust me.
> You won't be sorry.
> 

Use lvm is not the answer, if this was possible before the system should 
upgrade to FC-7 flawlessly, if /dev/hdx accomodated more then 15 
partitions, then so should the new /dev/sdx when it becomes the new 
device for this disk.

Regards,

Hans





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