new partition

[Brian Kelsay]

I think you can have as many as 22 partitions on a disk, but up until now
that would not be an issue with even a 6GB drive.  The partitions would be
really small.  Now with the 30-75GB drives I have heard of you will see more
of this. (I guess if you had a stripe set across several drives you might
have had a need for 22 partitions.)

I think that maybe only the physical partitions, not the logical, could be
bootable (until recently the 1024 cyl rule), but I am probably wrong here.

-----Original Message-----
From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike at illiana.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:49 AM
To: gdascher at home.com; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: new partition

Wow, I didn't know you could have a /dev/hda9.  Though bios only allowed
eight
partitions on an IDE device.  /dev/hda1-4 are primary and /dev/hda5-8 are 
extended.  This might have something to do with the problem.

	Mike