Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition
On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 16:45:40 (-0800), Joseph Loo wrote:
> On 11/11/2016 04:39 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 18:36:15 (-0500), rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Friday, November 11, 2016 04:58:41 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>> Le 11/11/2016 à 22:17, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
> >>>> The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical
> >>>> ones in one of the primary partitions.
> >>>
> >>> Huh ? The number of logical partitions is unlimited.
> >>
> >> Ok, just to be part of this ongoing saga, I think the number of logical
> >> partitions is limited to something like 12 or 16 (or maybe the total number of
> >> partitions, primary plus logical is limited to 16. (And maybe that's a limit
> >> of one or more OSs rather than a universal limit.)
> >
> > That doesn't seem to square with
> > http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?147959-How-to-install-and-boot-145-operating-systems-in-a-PC
> > (Scroll down to "Partition Tables".)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David.
> >
> Your URL is talking about gpt scheme. The limitation is in the MSDOS
> partition scheme
You only read the updates at the top!
> > (Scroll down to "Partition Tables".)
... and see
/dev/hda4 367 36483 290109802+ 5 Extended
...
/dev/hda60 34658 35265 4883728+ 83 Linux
Cheers,
David.
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