Martin Baehr wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:34:43PM +1300, Trev wrote: > > I read in a file "Partitioning Dos and Don'ts": Setting up a linux extended > > partition, which used to be a necessity with earlier disk tools, is now > > generally a no-no. Is this correct ?. > > linux extended? > does this mean maybe the linux extended filesystem (as opposed to ext2 > and ext3 in use now) ? > I don't know.
The file was from the Linux-Mandrake discussion forum, the complete paragraph says "Setting up a linux extended partition, which used to be a necessity with earlier disk tools, is now generally a no-no. Install will proceed, erroring out with some sort of information that it did not format, or formatting correctly and complaining it could not mount swap and leaving your original partition table in some cases trashed." > > I will want at least 4 different Linux's :-), a partition for doing CDs, a > > partition for backups (from hda), that's 15 partitions, and will probably want > > more. > > Can i have that many ?. > > sure, > but i suggest you take a look at lvm, which brings another level of > flexibility to your partitioning... > Thanks, i know about lvm but have not looked much at it. Cheers Trevor > greetings, martin. > -- > interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, > sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. > -- > pike programmer working and travelling in europe open-steam.org > unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) > Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
