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| ralph | Third-party reporting installer errors after creating / and swap. /home creation failed, something about not creating 17th partition; sorry, nothing more specific. https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/installation-guide/i386/partition-programs.html warns | 15:37 |
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| ralph | the normal Ubuntu system provides only 20 devices for partitions, so you may not install on partitions higher than 20 unless you first manually create devices for those partitions. | 15:38 |
| ralph | and an older version of that page actually gives the mknod required: | 15:38 |
| ralph | https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/partition-programs.html | 15:38 |
| ralph | I'm wondering if the warning/advice is still up to date now that udev is about. Or isn't it there when the installer is running? | 15:39 |
| ralph | On an installed system, /dev/sdb gets minor of 16 so only 0-15 available for sda anyway. 0 drive, 1-4 primary, 5-15 logical. So 11 L max even though the kernel supports many more. A userspace restriction? | 15:40 |
| JanC | maybe there is a limit to avoid a possible DoS created with a specially-crafted device? ;) | 16:46 |
| ralph | I don't think the guide is correct anymore. Since /dev/hda became /dev/sda with the merge of IDE and SATA the sd limit of 15 partitions has come into play. I've found users with 20 partitions complaining that a hd->sd kernel meant their later partitions were now unaccessible. | 16:51 |
| ralph | sda here is 8,0, sdb is 8,16. I think the installer documents need to make clear 11 logicals is your max now. | 16:52 |
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