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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 01:47:16 +0200
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On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 23:19, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> /me boggles, however does one end up with that many partitions on so few
>> disks?
>
> It happens. Tejun did the extending because libata users were really
> hitting these limits.
>
>> /boot
>> /
>> /home
>> /usr
>> swap
>> /usr/local
>> /opt
>>
>> and I'm seriously out of sensible ideas.
>
> I've seen two usual variants
>
>        Fedora & Unbuntu & Debian & ....
>
>        Fedora 10 & Rawhide & Fedora 9 & ...
>
> for people who like to play with distros or need to test a product on them
>
> and once you do that 16 is quite easy

That's right. Also people with virtualization, running many guest from
individual partitions, like to do that - and 16 is nothing for them.
:)

Some of us run the dynamic sd minors already, and it's not unlikely we
will enable it pretty soon for the distro.

Thanks,
Kay