Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 23:22:36 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i wrote:
> > > The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical
> > > ones in one of the primary partitions.
> 
> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Huh ? The number of logical partitions is unlimited.
> 
> You are right. Must have been some mislead memory from old experience
> with partitioning tools.

There was a period (rex) when Debian only created /dev/sda[1-8]
on SCSI disks, though this only affected whether you could *access*
a greater number of partitions, not *create* them.

Cheers,
David.