Bug 67581

Summary: Fdisk will not create more than 16 partitions
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bryan K. Reed <bryan.reed>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Bryan K. Reed 2002-06-27 19:21:02 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Fdisk will not let you create more than 16 partitions on an IDE drive.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.fdisk /dev/hda
2.keep creating partitions.  Won't let you create any beyond 16
3.
	

Expected Results:  With the util-linux that came with 6.2 we could create many
more partitions than we can now (on IDE).  

Additional info:

I went and looked at the source code.  There's a patch in the src rpm that
changes MAXIMUM_PARTS in fdisk.h from 80 to 16
(util-linux-2.11n-miscfixes.patch.)   I didn't see any comments in the RPM spec
file that mentioned why this was done.
Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-06-27 20:32:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56244 ***