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Intel Mac can't have more than 4 partitions?

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Mar 15, 20266550 views
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I've read everywhere that you can't have more than 4 partitions because of GPT on intel Macs. But what happens if you make more than 4? On my iMac I have EFI, Macintosh HD, Windows, Linux, and Linux swap partitions and I am able to boot from all three operating systems with rEFIt. So, I have 5 part…

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Fix for: Intel Mac can't have more than 4 partitions?

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Intel-based Macs use the GUID Partition Table (GPT) by default. GPT in turn supports up to 128 partitions by default (that value can be increased if necessary, although most partition tools don't enable you to do so). Thus, there's no problem with h…

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