I found than the problem is fdisk; I downloaded and installed cfdisk and i managed to created all the required partitions.
Saddly Redhat doesn't ship cfdisk like other distributions (Debian comes to my mind). Anyone has found a way to tweak fdisk to do this trick? JV. On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 16:36, Jose Vicente Nunez Z wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to create more than 16 paritions on an IDE drive (95GB) to > use it as raw devices for a database server. The problem is than when i > reach the number 16 then i got an error from fdisk saying than no more > extended partitions can be created. > > I read than you can have 64 partitions for an IDE drive and 16 for an > SCSI drive so i'm clueless here. > > Anyone has ever created so many partitions? > > I'm using RH 7.3, 2.4.18-3, util-linux-2.11n-12 (where fdisk is > contained). > > Thanks in advance, > > > -- > José Vicente Núñez Zuleta (josevnz at newbreak dot com) > Newbreak LLC System Administrator > http://www.newbreak.com > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- José Vicente Núñez Zuleta (josevnz at newbreak dot com) Newbreak LLC System Administrator http://www.newbreak.com RHCE, SCDJ2P, SCPJ2P -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
