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Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition



On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 18:36:15 (-0500), rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, November 11, 2016 04:58:41 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Le 11/11/2016 à 22:17, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
> > > The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical
> > > ones in one of the primary partitions.
> > 
> > Huh ? The number of logical partitions is unlimited.
> 
> Ok, just to be part of this ongoing saga, I think the number of logical 
> partitions is limited to something like 12 or 16 (or maybe the total number of 
> partitions, primary plus logical is limited to 16.  (And maybe that's a limit 
> of one or more OSs rather than a universal limit.)

That doesn't seem to square with
http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?147959-How-to-install-and-boot-145-operating-systems-in-a-PC
(Scroll down to "Partition Tables".)

Cheers,
David.


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