Re: [LI] Re: Partitioning : No free primary

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 09:51:47PM +0530, Shanker R Swaminathan wrote:
> You can have upto 4 partitions in your primary partition. If you need more
> logical drives , make an extended partition in the primary partition and
> make logical drives in that. If you run out of partition entries , you
> _will_  get errors. This entire primary /extended partition rigamole is an
> artefact of Dos days.

And a smart thing to do is to have just one Linux partition and have a Linux
defined partitioning scheme within that partition, instead of requiring
several partitions.

BSD already does this.

	-Arun

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