At 02:22 AM 5/26/99 -0300, you wrote:
>I read somewhere in the list, that there is a limit of 4 primary
>partitions on one drive.
>Just to know:
>What of Linux should/must be on a primary partition and what on a
>secondary?
>Let's suppose I want to have two swap and three linux native partitions:
>All swap should go on a primary? Or one and one?
>And about Linux natives: should them all go on a primary partition? Or
>just "/"?
>TIA.
>
>--
>J. M. Albores
>
>
Hi Jose:
If you have only one hard disk, there is no benefit of having more than
one swap partition, only beneficial if there is more than one drive. The
limit of four PRIMARY partitions does not mean that is all the partitions
that can be on the drive.
The drive can contain up to 4 primary and 1 or more extended partitions
each of which may contain 1 or more logical partitions. This can be
confusing at first. Most of the linux books go into at least brief detail
in explaining. I strongly recommend "Running Linux" (O'Reilly).
Tom
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