From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261388AbVFNWfb (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:35:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261390AbVFNWfa (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:35:30 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:11716 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261388AbVFNWfZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:35:25 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: SATA - SCSI Partition limit Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:29:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.15 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q2H5nQH9rLrbUJBr4VvTFbd7yog= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Duthie writes: > Problem: > Need to simulate CDs shares on a linux/samba File server... has a > 120 GB SATA drive in there ... > > ( linux-2.6.10 ) > > long story ... > Shares had the wrong size for the evil VB program > (Tried mounting *.iso via loopbak - it didn't like it ) > Windows boxes that work just have lots of 700 mb partitions ( 4 > x extended with 6 or 7 logical in each ) > SO i thought "I know I'll just make lots of partitions" oops , > SCSI sub system only allows 15 Drives Use LVM. -- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com