2009/1/6 Liam Proven <[email protected]>: > 2009/1/6 Neil Greenwood <[email protected]>: >> You don't need the primary partition with Linux. You can make one >> extended partition that fills the disk and then put all the logical >> partitions in there for /, /home, swap, etc. >> >> Only Windows requires a primary partition, and it needs to be >> bootable. Linux doesn't even need the boot flag. > > You don't /need/ it but there is no reason to avoid it. If you have > only an extended partition on the drive, you lose the first couple of > cylinders or so - dozens of meg on a modern drive, for no reason > whatsoever.
Thanks! I didn't know this. I only recently discovered (although it's obvious in hindsight) that you didn't need a primary with Linux. Only took me 15 years... > > The "standard" layout is 1 primary + 1 extended containing logicals. > > On DOS-based OSs, there is good reason to use only logicals on all but > the 1st drive, because it makes drive letter assignment by the OS. I guess you meant "stops drive letter assignment by the OS."? Otherwise you're missing something from that sentence :-) Cofion, Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
