On 11/7/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dovber Shapiro wrote:
> > Forgive me if my terminology is not clear, but the extended partition is
> > the rest of your disk, and contains all of the other partitons, as you can
> > see from the start and end blocks.
> > You need this because you can only have 4 primary partitions on a drive, so
> > the short answer is no you cannot mount anything there.
> > Dovber Shapiro
>
> I highly recommend the use of LVM. On every Linux box you ever set up
> from now on. You will never have to worry about primary/extended
> partitions again.
LVM doesn't keep you from running out of space on your disk drive. It
does,however, make it easier to shuffle the remaining space from one
partition to another.
carl
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