Re: /dev/hda10

[Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:22:05AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can
> > create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device'
> > message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special boot time parameter?
> 
> Can you tell me exactly how you have 10 partitons? Even the sun disk label
> only allows for 8. And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended
> partitions enabled.

Here is my partition table for /dev/hdc:

Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/hdc1             1       784   6297448+   5  Extended
   /dev/hdc5             1        26    208782   83  Linux
   /dev/hdc6            27       154   1028128   83  Linux
   /dev/hdc7           155       164     80293   82  Linux swap
   /dev/hdc8           165       611   3590495+  83  Linux
   /dev/hdc9           612       694    666665+  83  Linux
   /dev/hdc10          695       784    722893   83  Linux

As ou can see, /dev/hdc10 exists but there are only 7 partitions. 
The numbers 2-4 are not used (They are the four allowed primary
partitions).  I don't know anything about a limit, but it sounds
likely.

> 
> Ben
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