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

[Gilboa Davara]

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.

- Gilboa