F7 installation to partition >15

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Jul 22 13:20:36 UTC 2007


> With PATA disks, you where able to have up to 63 partitions. With SATA this is 
> limited to 15. This is a fundamental limitation, nothing you can do about it.

Device mapper can be used to do this, and really one direction we should
be going is to use device mapper for all of this as it can do far more
useful things being user space than the kernel code. 

Alan




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