howmany partitions per disk possible?

[Thilo Six]

Alexander Skwar wrote the following on 10.09.2006 22:35:
> · Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de>:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> I ran into a problem where i am not able to create partitions on my sata
>> disk above sda16.
> 
> Yep. Can't be done.

ic hmm  :(

i just thought now that i need to create new devises:

$ l /dev/ | grep sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   0 10.09.06 22:50 sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   1 10.09.06 22:50 sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,  10 10.09.06 22:50 sda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,  11 10.09.06 22:50 sda11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,  12 10.09.06 22:50 sda12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,  13 10.09.06 22:50 sda13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,  14 10.09.06 22:50 sda14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,  15 10.09.06 22:50 sda15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   2 10.09.06 22:50 sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   3 10.09.06 22:50 sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   4 10.09.06 22:50 sda4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   5 10.09.06 22:50 sda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   6 10.09.06 22:50 sda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   7 10.09.06 22:50 sda7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   8 10.09.06 22:50 sda8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,   9 10.09.06 22:50 sda9

..but couldn´t find a way until now. $ man/info mknod isn´t verry
informative (if that´s the way).

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>> Any ideas howto make the end of disk available?
> 
> Dump the outdated old-style partitioning and start using LVM.

Well since it seems it is my only chance ... is there a possibilty to
make a mixed setup.
I would like to stay with current running system (without LVM) and
additionaly use LVM only to setup the rest of disk?

is there an easy-LVM-howto for beginners?

> Alexander Skwar

Thanks for the info

bye Thilo
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