limahotel said:
> I need to create a partition on a HD for dual boot Windows/Linux
> installation. Windows will go in the primary, Linux Fedora 3 in the
> Extended. I plan to use Partition Magic to create the extended
> partition.
> The documentation says the choices for Linux format type are Linuz
> Ext2 or
> Linus Ext3. Which one should I specify - Ext2 or Ext3?
You can have up to 4 primary partitions. If you're going to use 3 or
fewer Linux partitions, make them all primary. Ext2 is a
non-journaling filesystem. Ext3 is a journaling filesystem and an
extension of Ext2.
> I noticed an existing installation (on a different HD) that had 3
> partitions
> for Linux with sizes of 99.9 M, 255.9 M, and 28.2 G. Yet
> documentation says
> I will need 2 partitions for the new install - the main one and a
> swap. Do
> I need 2 or 3? If only 2, what would the 99.9 M be used for on the
> existing
> install?
I use many more than 3 on my systems. The system I'm using right now
has 7 partitions. It's hard to tell what was on your other install. I
would guess it's probably swap / and /usr. It depends a lot which
distribution and who installed it.
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