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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Limits
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:

> What is the most filesystems that you can put on a single physical IDE
> drive and how?

I can't find any hard limits poking through the man pages, but I suppose
you get into trouble when you hit partition 'z'.  Having a lot of
filesystems is impractical to deal with, since you have to mount them all
to use them.  

How, I suppose you just create more partitions by specifying them in the
disklabel.

You aren't asking about DOS partitions, are you?

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