what partitioning rule am I not aware of?

[Ian Chapman]

Tom Horsley wrote:

> Is there some rule I don't know about on the number of
> partitions? Or is it a rule about the starting address of a
> partition (can't be too big maybe)?
> 
> Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and
> bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-).

IIRC there is a partition limit of 15 for SCSI devices and something 
like 63 for IDE devices. The SCSI limit probably also applies to 
psuedo-scsi devices like SATA, USB drives etc. Exactly what's 
responsible for the limit, I couldn't say whether it's the kernel, scsi 
subsystem, partition layout limits etc. It may work in Windows but to be 
honest almost all PC OSs handle partition layouts differently to some 
degree or another.

-- 
Ian Chapman.