Re: [opensuse] swap file placement

On 2008/05/31 08:28 (GMT-0400) Jerry Feldman apparently typed:

Felix Miata wrote:

I doubt I have any disks that I installed anything on that have fewer than 4
primaries.

... if you use Part 1 and 2 for Windows (C and D), Part 3
for /boot, then you generally need Partition 4 for the extended.

In addition to those 4 primaries, most of my disks have at least 3 times that
many logicals.

A primary is every/any partition defined in the partition table that lives in
the tail end of the MBR. That makes "the" extended a primary.

But, for the most part, Linux file systems can exist very nicely in
logical partitions, and these are more flexible than primaries

To every modern PC OS, there is no difference between a primary and a
logical. The only difference between them is the location of their
definitions on disk. Definition location on disk is only relevant to boot
loaders and partitioners, not operating systems.

To a legacy OS like doz 9x, the difference between logical and primary can
make a difference, but that's only due to its legacy of design roots in
antiquity leading to a stupid crutch to handle LBA addressing on disks >8G.
That difference is avoided by using M$'s special 0Fh partition type instead
of the usual 05h for the extended table entry.
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