howmany partitions per disk possible?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 11 September 2006 15:49, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > For future reference, the total complete entire purpose and
> > reason for the existence of primary/extended/logical
> > paertitions is a hack to get around yet another microsoft
> > screw-up. MSDOS 2 misjudged how many partitions people
> > would want to have and the current insane partition
> > structure is still the same patch that worked around that.
> > There is no correct way to structure these things, and
> > Linux couldn't care less what type of partitions you use,
> > whether logical or primary they can all be used and be
> > booted from. Some other OSes do care about this, Linux
> > ain't  one of 'em :-)
> >
> > alan
>
> ....but having said this, the limit is 4 primary partitions
> per disk.

True. I forgot to add that clarification. Thanks.

alan