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.
