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Re: dell 4000



On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:54:31AM +0100, Klaas Gadeyne wrote:

> > IIRC, you can only have 7 total partitions: 3 primary, and 4 logical (or is
> > it the other way around?), so you may have to lt youre hda4 be one big
> > partition for debian.
> Is this so??  I thought you could have more logical ones...

And you're right: an IDE disk can have a maximum of 63 partitions, while a
SCSI one can "only" have 15.
See man fdisk(8) and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

-- 
BlueRaven

Prima di parlare, ricorda:
mount -t auto /dev/brain /mnt/mouth



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