On 11/11/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Nov 10, 2012, at 8:09 PM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an inside joke, ergo "you know if we give users this particular hurt me button, some will actually try it."
45 partitions across 4 drives in one box, 40 partitions across 4 drives
in another. Several OS, several distros, many versions.
Vitualization does not reproduce exact UI behavior of real UI
on real graphics cards.
That's a pretty atypical use case. But even still 30 seconds for a grub2-mkconfig isn't that bad. With 85 partitions I think the end user has a greater chance of inducing data loss by forgetting wtf all those partitions are used for.
Last time I checked ( for testing purposes only ) the installer could
not even cope with creating the kernels (the SCSI/Sata/USB ) 15
partition limit.
(the kernel used to support Pata or IDE disk with 63 partitions )
The Anaconda developers closed that bug wontfix based on it being crazy
to do so instead of having the installer at least supporting the 15
partition limit as the kernel does.
And I think this is still the limitation in the partitioning tools as in
sfdisk can handle/show 130 partitions in a hard disk
fdisk can handle/show 60 partitions partitions in a hard disk
cfdisk can handle/show 63 partitions
Not sure what the limitation is in parted but I think I saw somewhere
they had increased the support from 16 to 64 msdos partitions
JBG
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