15 partitions max prob revisited

[Ian K. Erickson]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brad Boyer wrote:
> No, this is a Linux problem.  You cannot have more than 15 partitions
> on a drive because there are not device numbers allocated for anything
> higher than partition number 15.  So even if you create a partion 16,
> there is no way to access it under Linux.  This is the way that the
> device numbers were allocated.  As far as I know, there isn't a
> reasonable way to change this either.  Sorry I have to be the bearer
> of bad news, but that's the way things currently stand.

Not that know anything about it, but out of curiosity: couldn't you use
mknod to create >15 [hs]da's? Or could you recompile the kernal to allow
them?

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