Re: SATA - SCSI Partition limit

[Måns Rullgård]

John Duthie <beyondgeek@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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