Subject: Re: Partition limit?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/04/1996 07:10:48
> Yes. 8 was always the traditional UNIX partition count. At this point, to
> support more than 8 would require everyone to change their /dev/sdnX
> files. Doable, but a mess.

Definitely.  Actually in the more recent sources (will be part of 1.2),
I changed the partition scanning to fill 8 partitions by scanning the
first 32.  I recommend trying a more recent kernel than the base 1.1
kernel (for many reasons...).

-allen

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