On Wednesday 04 February 2004 15:37, Kiran Kumar wrote: > > Using fdisk we can have , > > > > 3 Primary partitions & > > 1 extended partition . > > > > What is the maximum number of partitions within the > > > > extended partition ? > > 4, AFAIK > A miss is as good as a mile. <num.of prim.parts> + <num.of ext.parts> <= 4 <num.of logical part.s per extended> <= [15..16] Source: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2001/04/21/0002.html Method: http://www.google.at/search?as_q=ext2+maximum+extended+partitions HTH Michael -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/