Re: howmany partitions per disk possible?

· Thilo Six <T.Six@xxxxxx>:

Alexander Skwar wrote the following on 10.09.2006 22:35:
· Thilo Six <T.Six@xxxxxx>:

Hi

I ran into a problem where i am not able to create partitions on my sata
disk above sda16.

Yep. Can't be done.

ic hmm :(

i just thought now that i need to create new devises:

$ l /dev/ | grep sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 10.09.06 22:50 sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 10.09.06 22:50 sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 10 10.09.06 22:50 sda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 11 10.09.06 22:50 sda11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 12 10.09.06 22:50 sda12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 13 10.09.06 22:50 sda13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 14 10.09.06 22:50 sda14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 15 10.09.06 22:50 sda15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 10.09.06 22:50 sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 10.09.06 22:50 sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 10.09.06 22:50 sda4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 10.09.06 22:50 sda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 10.09.06 22:50 sda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 10.09.06 22:50 sda7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 10.09.06 22:50 sda8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 10.09.06 22:50 sda9

..but couldn´t find a way until now.

Yep. Can't have more than 15 partitions on "SCSI". With
IDE, you can use up to 63 partitions.

Any ideas howto make the end of disk available?

Dump the outdated old-style partitioning and start using LVM.

Well since it seems it is my only chance ... is there a possibilty to
make a mixed setup.

Certainly.

I would like to stay with current running system (without LVM) and
additionaly use LVM only to setup the rest of disk?

Yep. You'd need to remove one of the existing partitions, though.
You'd then use this partition number to be your "Physical Volume" (PV)
which will be used to create a "Volume Group" (VG) and in this
VG you'll create as many Logical Volumes (LV, partition, if you
like) as needed. The partition would span the whole available space.

is there an easy-LVM-howto for beginners?

I only know of one LVM howto and that's an excellent one.
See <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/>.

Alexander Skwar

Thanks for the info

You're welcome.

Alexander "LVM rulez!elf!" Skwar :)
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"Oh, das ist bitter."



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