Re: [Mactel-linux-users] /dev/sda6 does not exist

[Alexandre B. <al...@bo...>]

Le Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:53:05PM +0200, Tino Keitel a écrit :
> It looks like he does just this, and wiped his sda6 in this step. sda6
> sounds like an extended partition. As the GPT doesn't support this,
> syning the GPT and the MBR results in an MBR without extended
> partitions. The only usable partitions are primary partitions, and the
> MBR only supports 4 of them.

You can have up to 128 partitions with GPT, it's just harder to sync GPT and
MBR for partitions >= 5.

But if you enable GPT in the kernel, it can simply ignore MBR partitions. Only
if you want to use Grub, Lilo, or Windows, they need to live in partitions
that are visible from MBR, as they do not understand GPT.


Alex