Re: Maximum Number of partitons
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:10:20AM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've repartitioned my PowerMac G4 and partitioned as follows:
>
> ( 5.0G) Linux native
> /dev/hda20 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /var 1024000 @ 52808500
> (500.0M) Linux native
> /dev/hda21 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /tmp 3072000 @ 53832500
> ( 1.5G) Linux native
> /dev/hda22 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /home 3125932 @ 56904500
> ( 1.5G) Linux native
>
> I've installed MacOSX on 10, woody on partitions 11-16 and intended to
> install sid on partitions 17-22. So far so good ..... woody is installed
> and running.
>
> However, when going through the sid install, it wouldn't initialize
> partitions 21 & 22 (/tmp and /home). However it let me mount them and
> continue with the install - I figured I could sort them once I'd
> installed sid. I've installed sid (base plus a few packages: aptitude,
> sudo, vim, exim4 and mutt) but I can't seem to initialise and mount
> these two partitions - I tried mke2fs -l /tmp -T ext3 but it didn't
> seem to recognise the partition (I've rebooted into woody to write this
> and can't remember the error exactly).
The installer only makes devices up to /dev/hda20. To have more
partitions, you need to create new devices. From the install manual:
As an example, here are commands you can use in tty2 or under
Execute A Shell to add a device so the 21st partition can be
initialized:
cd /dev
mknod hda21 b 3 21
chgrp disk hda21
chmod 660 hda21
Booting into the new system will fail unless proper devices are present
on the target system. After installing the kernel and modules, execute:
cd /target/dev
mknod hda21 b 3 21
chgrp disk hda21
chmod 660 hda21
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