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[Alan Cox]

> 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.

Alan