what partitioning rule am I not aware of?

[Ian Chapman]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:

>> Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and
>> bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-).
>>
> Try parted.  Make sure you make the extended partition go to the end of 
> the disk and then fill up the space in between.  Also, fdisk in Debian 
> will allow you to go beyond 15 (I have 26 total on /dev/hda).  

That's normal though, ATA/IDE disks aren't subject to the same 
limitations in Linux.

-- 
Ian Chapman.