[SATLUG] Re: Primary vs extended partitions

[Sean Carolan]

> I am unused to primary partitions since there was an ancient time
> when I had WinNT on my PC and then extended partitions
> were created to put on Linux.  Since then I have added big
> hard drives which wind up be all extended with 5-7 partitions
> created on each.  Maybe I should be creating some primary
> and then 3-4 extended partitions?  My partitions are in the
> range of 5 to 35GB each.

Howard:

You're probably best off just letting the operating system tools
decide for you what gets to be primary, extended and logical.  If you
want the maximum amount of flexibility for your partitioning scheme
you might want to spend a little time learning how to use LVM.  Then
you can create and resize your logical volumes (not physical disk
partitions) as you wish.

S