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Re: Devices limit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guest section DW)
Tue Oct 26 22:08:53 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 04:05:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW)
Message-Id: <199910270205.EAA26655@wsdw01.win.tue.nl>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, irish@n2h2.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Alan writes:
> How many partitions you can create per drive depends on type
> but right now we only allow 16 per disk, giving you a 32Gb ceiling.
I have not followed this discussion, so perhaps the topic was
something else, but the limit of 15 partitions per disk is
because of lack of minor space. With large device numbers it is gone.
Also, there is a size limit that is 1 TB or more, not 2 GB.
2 GB is the size limit on a file.
Andries
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