From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: IDE devices can have up to 63 partitions but MAKEDEV only creates partitions 0-16. My 40Gb drive has 22 partitions including my Linux home dir at partition 17. Would a default of creating 33 partitions (0-32) be better especially for todays larger disks? My work around for now is to change /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.4.x to create 33 devices but see my related bug on fdisk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.MAKEDEV hda 2.ls /dev/hda* Actual Results: only devices hda0-16 get created Expected Results: should at least create devices for the 22 partitions on my hda drive. Creating 0-32 would be a better default. Additional info: My system has all available up2date patches for RH 7.3 applied.
A related bug is #74762: fdisk only handles partitions up to 16
Why not create device files for all 64 possible partitions ?
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