Re: [opensuse] swap file placement

On Sat, 31 May 2008 15:14:33 +0200 (CEST)
"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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).

I was thinking in terms of the hardware and partition tables, not
Linux device mappings. I stand corrected in that you can only have 15
numbered partitions 1 - 15.

And as you mentioned, LVM is not portable.

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