fedora-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 249

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:53 -0500, Michael P Angell wrote:
> So 4 partitions is max with 1 able to be partitioned again? That
> is a little confusing, partition a partition? 

Four *primary* partitions maximum, for all the PC BIOSs that I've heard
about (that's what initially has to deal with reading the drive).
Inside them you can sub-divide with secondary/extended partition
schemes, handled by the OS that you're running.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.5-76.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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