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Hello All,

We can create max 4 primary partitions.
But what about secondary partitions? Is there any hard core limit value set ?

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I think 64 is max limit. It was mentioned in Red Hat doc.
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Its 0-63 for IDE hard drives and 0-15 for SCSI hard drives
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