At 9:23 PM +0000 12/15/07, Alan Cox wrote: >> AFAICT, Fedora 7+ provides no option for accessing partitions above 15 as >> other contemporary distros do. So, you need to either rework your entire > >No distribution using libata provides this > >> FWIW, the SCSI system that the default libata drivers use is limited to 14 >> partitions with filesystems. 0 is the whole disk. 16 is past the limit. One >> of the remaining 15 is reserved for the extended container, leaving the >> actual place usable filesystems can live at 14. > >Easily fixed but Al Viro vetoed the change so take it up with him. Or use >device mapper, which can do as many partitions as you want. kpartx may do that, reading partition tables and setting up device-mapper from them. I have not tried it. `yum install kpartx` -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
