So none of you can come up with and answer? Come on people. Maximum number of partitions on a hard drive. easy question.
Found the answer here: http://superuser.com/questions/368173/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-partitions-that-can-be-made-on-a-hard-driveTB."
"The EFI specification mandates that a GUID Partition Table (GPT), which all modern operating systems support, is capable of containing a maximum of 128 partitions on any size hard disk. GPT is also required to boot from hard disk drives larger than 2
So none of you can come up with and answer? Come on people. Maximum number
of partitions on a hard drive. easy question.
Found the answer here: http://superuser.com/questions/368173/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-partitions-that-can-be-made-on-a-hard-drive
"The EFI specification mandates that a GUID Partition Table (GPT), which
all modern operating systems support, is capable of containing a maximum
of 128 partitions on any size hard disk. GPT is also required to boot from hard disk drives larger than 2 TB."
novinhael@gmail.com wrote:
So none of you can come up with and answer? Come on people. Maximum number >> of partitions on a hard drive. easy question.
Found the answer here:
http://superuser.com/questions/368173/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-partitions-that-can-be-made-on-a-hard-drive
"The EFI specification mandates that a GUID Partition Table (GPT), which
all modern operating systems support, is capable of containing a maximum
of 128 partitions on any size hard disk. GPT is also required to boot from >> hard disk drives larger than 2 TB."
I just fitted a 6TB drive today and I am sure fdisk suggested partitions 1
- 128 and it insisted on GPT
So none of you can come up with and answer? Come on people. Maximum number of partitions on a hard drive. easy question.
Found the answer here: http://superuser.com/questions/368173/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-partitions-that-can-be-made-on-a-hard-drive
"The EFI specification mandates that a GUID Partition Table (GPT),
which all modern operating systems support,
is capable of containing a maximum of 128 partitions on any size
hard disk. GPT is also required to boot from hard disk drives larger than 2 TB."
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