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pali	2013-04-05 , 22:34
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Originally Posted by peterleinchen

I just ask as I stumbled upon this limit with N9 partitioning where I tried to make 9 partitions (on internal and only mmcblk device). and sfdisk reported everything fine. but I could only see up to mmcblk0p7...

This limit is in kernel mmc driver which can assign only 8 minor numbers to mmc devices. But this magic constant 8 can be changed when configuring kernel, so you can recompile kernel with for example 16 partitions limit.

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