Re: [opensuse] swap file placement

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The Saturday 2008-05-31 at 08:56 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

Then, you should be aware that you have only 11 logical partitions
available.

I don't think that is correct. The information that I have is that it
is a much larger number. I've seen things like 64 and unlimited.

Yes, you have seen, past tense. You will not see them in the future, libata does not support them. The disk themselves support unlimited numbers of partitions, but the operating system doesn't. Currently, Linux is more limited in this respect that Windows: you are limited to a total 15 partitions per disk, of which 1..4 are primaries, and 5..15 are logical. Number 0 is the entire disk (that's where 2^4 comes into).

But, really, anything over a half dozen starts to become unwieldy.

Not really. It has its uses.

Again, IMHO, LVM is more flexible.

And some disadvantages. It is not portable, for instance.

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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