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Jose Albores 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.
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> J. M. Albores
The limit of four primary partitions is not a Linux limitation, but rather,
a hardware limitation.
For example with DOS fdisk, you can only create one primary. with the fdisk
that comes with Linux, you can create four. They would be /dev/sda1 through
/dev/sda4. You cannot create any more partiions than that if you create
1-4. Or you could create /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3 and then
/dev/sda5, 6, 7, etc... 5 and above are your extended partitions.
The only one that you really need to create as primary is /boot on
/dev/sda1. After that, you could put everything else (including swap) on 5,
6, 7, 8...etc., or on 2, 3, 5, 6,7,8...etc., or 2, 3, and 4. /boot only
needs to be 7 or 8 megs and this will get you around the 1024 limit on
cylinders.
