linux-kernel - Re: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610152342400.10294@twinlark.arctic.org>
Date:	Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:43:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>
To:	Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@....nl>
cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device?

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> A funny effect might be that hda5 exists, hda6 does not, and hda7 exists again.
> Maybe unexpected for some software.

why would that be unexpected?  that seems entirely normal these days with 
udev...

# ls /dev/hda?
/dev/hda1  /dev/hda2  /dev/hda5

-dean
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