[CVALE] Well, I think I've tried everything...

[Gaijin]

Hello again,

     Using cfdisk, I've been trying the following:

hda1 / 10GB
hda2  /home 30GB
hda3 /usr/src 100GB
hda4 /pub 100GB
hda5 /boot 500MB
hda6 <spare> 5GB
hda7 /root 2.5GB
hda14 <swap> 2GB

     Have I mistakenly heard that you can have 16 partitions on an IDE 
hard drive?  Tried 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, then 1, 5, 6, 7, 2, etc., but 
nothing seems to work.  About the max I can get outta cfdisk is six 
partitions, before it starts reporting that my remaining space is 
unusable.  Tried the 1, 5, 6, 7, and then 2, but it skips 2 and makes it 
3...if you know what I mean.  About the best I can get is partitions 1, 
5, 6, 7, 3, and 4.  Am I up against some kind of "can't cross so many 
cylinders" limit?  No problems with a 248GB EXT3 and a swap.  Was hoping 
to at least make my fstab file look nice.  This problem has been dribing 
me nutz ever since I ported to Linux.  Anyone know the secret to an 
orderly partition table?  TIA,

         Michael