Dual boot Vista and Kubuntu

[Nils Kassube]

Jisao wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 11:17:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote
>
> > On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > >On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> AIUI, you can make 3 primary's then an extended, and you can put 4
> > >> more logicals in this extended partition.
> > >
> > >I believe the limit on the number of logical's is 255 within an
> > > extended partition.
>
> IIRC, it is 63 logical partitions on an extended partition.

From <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning#Extended>:

Extended partitions are useful if you want more than four partitions on a 
single physical drive. Technically, the number of logical drives is no 
longer limited in later operating systems, but under Windows there is an 
effective limit if they are to be assigned drive letters (only 24 
letters, C: through Z:, are generally available. Later operating systems 
may allow more drives to be mounted/accessed by using A-A:, A-B:, A-C:, 
etc.).


Nils