On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:35:34PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:27:18 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > > OK, Primary and/or Extended partitions are numbered 1-to-4. Logical > > partitions within extended partitions are numbered 5 and up. > > And an extended partition is a special type of primary partition. > > Or you can avoid all this legacy idiocy and confusion by using GPT, which > lets you have a sensible number of partitions without fragile kludges.
The entire point of my bindmounting procedure (remember the original post?) is to minimize the number of partitions without strangling root if a logger goes wild. I generally run with 3 partitions, including swap. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
