On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:47:12AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Do you realy need 15 partitions on a singel drive?
in some cases it's possible (see below). However that was not my point: my point in that post was that if I have to look at a disk that someone gives me [or some old disk of mine, of the pre-lvm era], and it contains a partition hda16, and I must put it in a USB external enclosure, then the only thing I see to mount such a drive is to use the "offset" parameter of mount. And udev (or anything else I know) is of no help: that was the point of that post. When one might want to use more than 15 partitions? When using many vservers/openvz/jails/zones/chroot or the like, and one wants to separate things (operating system from data, and each vserver from the other ones), types of filesystems (on Linux: news or mail spool might be on reiser, operating system on ext3, huge data on xfs, ...), mounting options for suitable directories (noexec, nosuid, nodev, where applicable) ... -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
