Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition
On 11/11/2016 04:39 PM, David Wright wrote:
> 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.
>
Your URL is talking about gpt scheme. The limitation is in the MSDOS
partition scheme
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Joseph Loo
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