# of Paritions Limit on Mac

[Samuriajackon]

I've set up boot camp before and i know I've heard of other people using MacOSx, Windows, and LInux all on one HD with different partitions, but will the Mac have a limit to how many partitions I can have on one HD? I think i wanna run 4 OS's on one HD; OSX, WinXP-SP2, Windows7 Beta, and some Linux/Unix(maybe Free BSD or something cheap).

THanks for the Help.

 

[sammich]

IIRC from my last partitioning venture, you can have at least 22 partitions with GUID.

 

[edesignuk]

No idea what the limit is, and this is off topic...

Having your e-mail address in your signature is a really bad idea, I'd remove them if I were you.

 

[robbieduncan]

I believe that technically with perfect GUID Partition Table implementations there is no upper limit. Of course we don't live in a perfect world. The Wikipedia article notes that 64-bit version of Windows have a limit of 128 partitions on a GPT based drive. It makes no such not for OSX (although there may be a limit imposed here too)...

 

[steveza]

I think for any kind of practical use you will not run out of available partitions in either Windows or OS X.

 

[MattZani]

You will definitely be able to install 4 OS's.