fdisk in RHEL 4 is able to create one additional extended partition than fdisk in RHEL 5

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Issue

  • Why are partitions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 limited to 14 on a single disk
  • I am only able to create 11 extended partitions in RHEL 5
  • The maximum number of partitions has been created

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • fdisk

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