During some basic RHEL training, I came across this blurb:
Although it's possible to create more, RHEL will recognize only up to 16 partitions on any individual SATA, SCSI, PATA, or virtual hard drive.
That sentence seems to conflict with itself. If RHEL can't recognize more than 16 partitions, why would I ever want to create more than 16?
Best Answer
There was a bit of discussion about that topic in an old bug report on exactly that limit:
But even then the short answer was:
anyone who needs even 16 partitions is insane, :)
.Nowadays we have LVM and those limits do not matter anymore. :)