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Noted that makedev will create more harddisk partition device files
than you can actually use due to kernel limitations


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Gerard Beekmans 24 years ago
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@@ -23,5 +23,11 @@ hdc</userinput> to create the generic set of devices files, plus the
 files you need to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc)
 files you need to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc)
 </para>
 </para>
 
 
+<para>
+MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] and hdb[1-20] and such but keep in mind
+that you may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel 
+limitations regarding the max. number of partitions.
+</para>
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 </sect2>
 </sect2>