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[Tony Nelson]

At 9:23 PM +0000 12/15/07, Alan Cox wrote:
>> AFAICT, Fedora 7+ provides no option for accessing partitions above 15 as
>> other contemporary distros do. So, you need to either rework your entire
>
>No distribution using libata provides this
>
>> FWIW, the SCSI system that the default libata drivers use is limited to 14
>> partitions with filesystems. 0 is the whole disk. 16 is past the limit. One
>> of the remaining 15 is reserved for the extended container, leaving the
>> actual place usable filesystems can live at 14.
>
>Easily fixed but Al Viro vetoed the change so take it up with him. Or use
>device mapper, which can do as many partitions as you want.

kpartx may do that, reading partition tables and setting up device-mapper
from them.  I have not tried it.  `yum install kpartx`
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