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Re: Maximum Partitions using fdisk ?

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 15:37, Kiran Kumar wrote:
> >   Using fdisk we can have ,
> >
> > 3 Primary partitions &
> > 1 extended partition .
> >
> >  What is the maximum number of partitions within the
> >
> > extended partition ?
>
>   4, AFAIK
>

A miss is as good as a mile.
<num.of prim.parts> + <num.of ext.parts> <= 4
<num.of logical part.s per extended> <= [15..16] 

Source: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2001/04/21/0002.html
Method: http://www.google.at/search?as_q=ext2+maximum+extended+partitions

HTH
Michael

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