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Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | ????? ????? ??????? wrote:
> even though the fdisk output contains "/dev/cciss/c0d0p16" there is no
> such device created under /dev/cciss/.
> Is it because of the above mentioned limitation ?
63 partitions but SCSI and RAID controllers like the CCISS are limited
to 15 partitions (16 if you count the whole-device) due to the way minor
numbers are allocated to /dev/sd* nodes.
You could cheat and map the additional partitions using kpartx - run
"kpartx -a /dev/cciss/c0d0" and this should create a device-mapper
device for each partition under /dev/mapper/c0d0p*. You can remove them
again with "kpartx -d /dev/cciss/c0d0".
That said, it might be better to reconsider your partitioning scheme and
see if you really need that number of partition table entries.
Regards,
Bryn.
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i will try the mapper device.
yes, the partitioning scheme is quite inflexible.
Does LVM use the same technique to get around this limitation ? I have seen devices getting created under /dev/mapper.
Always thought its a part of LVM.
thanks a lot for all your support...
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Yajith Ajantha
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