On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:27:42 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
[...] > The way the partition table works on PCs is that there is room for 4 > entries. Those are your 4 primary partitions. That's it. No more > bytes left for partition entries. To get around this, logical > partitions were invented, which use a special primary partition called > an extended partition. This special partition contains another > partition table at the start with room for 4 more primary partitions. > In the extended partition you make a primary partition for your logical > drive, and if you need more, you make another primary partition > containing an extended entry. The extended entry then has another > partition table at the start where you put another primary partition for > your second logical partition, and you just keep repeating for all yoru > logical drives. [...] Thanks so much for this concise and clear summary of partitions! I'll make sure the /home is not primary but logical. I'll also check into the benefits of the LVM setup you suggested. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
