2/28    Is it a bad thing to have more than 15 partitions (counting everything
        such as drivers, free space etc) on a hard drive?  The system is
        OS X, possibly coexisting with linuxppc, if that matters.
        \_ if every partition is as large as you will need it to be for the
           life of the disk, it's not a bad thing.
           Do you believe that's true?  -tom
           \_ That is different level of badness from what I am worried about.
              Some places (man page for pdisk) says there are bugs in the
              Some place (man page for pdisk) says there are bugs in the
              else where this is documented.  However I just got a kernel
              panic for unknown reason.
              kernel that can't deal with > 15 partitions but I see nowhere
              else where this is documented and it might be archaic (MkLinux).
              However I just got a kernel panic for unknown reason.
              \_ Why don't you play it safe and stay at 14 partitions?
                 \_ What does one need with 14 partitions?  mkdir.
                    \_ Mount options can only be enabled on mount points,
                       not on subdirectories.
                        \_ you're being silly.
                        \_ and a mount point is what? a subdirectory....
                           \_ You can only set nodev, nosuid on partitions
                              mounted on a particular directory. If you
                              want to run some process in a chroot env,
                              if the fake root isn't a separate volume
                              you would have to disable things like nosuid
                              on the whole volume that the fake root dir
                              located on.
                                \_ ok, you now have a (fairly specious)
                                   reason to have two partitions.  What
                                   possible reason is there for the other
                                   13?
              \_ I meant (and said) "physical" partitions, which include
                 partition map, drivers etc.  On a Mac hard drive, just 7
                 volumes will take you to 16 partitions, somtimes 18.  Any
                 way yes I can just mkdir.  Note that there are at least 3
                 types of diff. fs and os on a mac/ppc system, not counting
                 the virtual pc, and that's some motivation to have a large
                 number of partitions on a large disk.
                \_ no it's not.