Re: Max number partitions per disk??
Re: Max number partitions per disk??
- Subject: Re: Max number partitions per disk??
- From: David Krauss <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:41:09 -0800 (PST)
--- Dan Markarian <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hi Wade,
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A specific partition scheme might have limits, but
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there is no system
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limit and has never been. The BSD disklabel is just
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another partition
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style in this big picture. The system has no
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dependence on a specific
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partition style, architecturally.
Not only that, but there's only 1 partition style Open
Firmware (that I've seen) can boot, which is Apple's.
And that uses 1 block per partition in the map, with a
4 byte count of partitions, instead of 1 block for the
whole map.
So unless the user is really trying to screw you up,
there's really no limit.
- Potatoswatter
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