This isn't actually causing any problems. I guess there must be something
that limits the number of partitions the kernel looks for at boot time,
but I couldn't find anything in genhd.c.
Kernel messages at bootup:
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f
hda: FUJITSU M1623TAU, 1623MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=824/64/63, DMA
hdb: CRD-8160B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Partition check:
hda:Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
hda1 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
Output from fdisk print partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1 824 1661152+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1 1 8 16065 83 Linux native
/dev/hda6 9 9 110 205600+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 111 111 118 16096+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 119 119 135 34240+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 136 136 161 52384+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda10 162 162 174 26176+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda11 175 175 378 411232+ 83 Linux native
output from df:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5 15554 7335 7416 50% /
/dev/hda6 199047 180276 8491 96% /usr
/dev/hda7 15583 49 14730 0% /tmp
/dev/hda9 50717 9503 38595 20% /var
/dev/hda10 25339 2575 21456 11% /var/log
/dev/hda11 398124 347271 30292 92% /home
/dev/hda12 842155 736076 106079 87% /usr/local/squid/cache
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