On 15 May 2002, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:54, Stephen R. Morris wrote:
> > The question is: Does it matter which partitions are physical (primary)
> > and which are logical (part of the extended partition)?
>
> /boot and swap should probably be primary. Everything else can be
> logical. At least, it's worked that way on my systems.
Actually, neither one has to be primary. Linux doesn't care. You might
want to make /boot a primary partition in case you're using a non-Linux
bootloader (ie, not LILO or grub). But swap certainly doesn't matter,
and obviously none of the rest of the partitions matter.
--Jeremy
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