partmap 15 limit Revisited

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

sloopy <sloopym <at> comcast.net> writes:

> ;') also the reasoning for 15 instead of a normal power of two (i.e. 16)
> is because on pc's you do get 16... the partition map on mac is a
> partition itself, whereas on pc's it is not...

Not true. On PCs you get 15, on macs you get 14, if you don't count the first
one. The reason is that one minor device number is needed to represent the whole
disk.