Re: [opensuse] swap file placement

On Fri, 30 May 2008 23:52:45 +0200 (CEST)
"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Friday 2008-05-30 at 17:00 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

I've seen some defaults where the swap and /boot are defined the
primary partitions where /, /home, and other file systems are allocated
as logical partitions. Personally, I never allocate primary partitions.
I always use logical partitions for everything.

Then, you should be aware that you have only 11 logical partitions
available.

I don't think that is correct. The information that I have is that it
is a much larger number. I've seen things like 64 and unlimited.
However, I have seen the number 15 (that corresponds to your 11
logicals and 4 primaries), but I would think that it would be more of a
power of 2 number. I have also seen 255 used (0 - 255). But, after
reading more about the structure of the partition table, I would state
there is no limit since the EBR (Extended Boot Record) is a chain.
AFAIK, GRUB is limited to 255, but that does not limit the number of
data partitions, only root partitions.

But, really, anything over a half dozen starts to become unwieldy.
Again, IMHO, LVM is more flexible.


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