Re: /dev/hda10

[John Pearson <huiac@camtech.net.au>]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:45:08AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:39:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled.
> > > 
> > not sure, but this sounds very strange to me.
> > afaik, you can nest extended patitions as much as you want.
> 
> Could be, but why would you want 10 partitions? :)
> 
> And does the kernel support this (yes I know fdisk can easily support
> something like this, but that doesn't mean the kernel does).
> 


Works for me...
$ df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5             792800  138536   613300     18%   /
/dev/hda1               7746    1536     5810     21%   /boot
/dev/hda6            1189050     185  1127418      0%   /home
/dev/hda7            1189050     101  1127502      0%   /var/spool/mail
/dev/hda8             497667      13   471952      0%   /var/spool/pop
/dev/hda9            1189050    1366  1126237      0%   /var/log
/dev/hda10            497667      13   471952      0%   /tmp
/dev/hdc1            7956307 2722158  4821682     36%   /ftp
$ /sbin/swapon -s
Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/hda2                       partition       128516  2108    -1
/dev/hda3                       partition       128516  0       -2
$

I'd have even more if I'd made /usr and /usr/local separate partitions,
was hosting a news server, or had more space for ftp.


John P.
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