From: Ing-Tsau Chiu (chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov)
Date: 08/18/92 

From: chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu)
Subject: Does Linux allow more than 8 partitions on a single drive?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:30:33 GMT

I set up DOS, OS2 boot manager and Linux as primary partitions and an
extended partition w/ 3 DOS/OS2 logical drives and 1 Linux logical
partition. I noticed that for scsi drive, Linux only has /dev/sda1 to
/dev/sda8. Wonder if it is OK to create /dev/sda9 with mknod to allow
more than 8 partitions under Linux.