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SCO Unix filesystems in extended

partitions divvy fdisk

From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: Hardware suggestions for 5.0.6 Server
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 04:48:30 GMT

Stuart J. Browne wrote:

> > > (is it true that SCO only support 4 FS per disc?)
> >
> > Not at all.  OpenServer supports 4 partitions per disk, and up to 7
> > divisions per partition, for a total of up to 28 filesystems per disk.
> 
> *blink* So SCO cannot be installed into a logical partition in an extended
> partition ?

As has often been said, SCO is a company, not a product.  I'm pretty
sure SCO Linux supports logical and extended partitions.

OpenServer has some vestigal support for that stuff.  It can _see_ them,
but its fdisk cannot _make_ them.  The installation code does not expect
to use them.  The `divisions' and `badtrk' schemes do not apply to them.
The support is limited to a total of 8 logical partitions (presumably
chained within 8 extended partition records).

If you used another operating system's fdisk to create them, I see no
reason that you couldn't store OpenServer filesystems on logical
partitions.  But it would only gain you one filesystem, since the
support is limited to 8 logical partitions.  You trade one MBR partition
used as an OpenServer partition and split into 7 divisions, for one MBR
partition used as an extended partition, getting you a max of 8 logical
partitions.

So OK, 29 filesystems/disk if you want to be really technical about it.
;-}

>Bela<
 

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