primary partitions
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| Author | Content |
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| nikkels Aug 15, 2008 12:00 AM EDT |
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In linux you can have only 4 primary partitions
end quote And how many primary partitions do you have in windows ? :-) |
| gus3 Aug 15, 2008 12:06 AM EDT |
Once they're all re-defined by M$ as "primary partitions," does it matter? |
| nikkels Aug 15, 2008 1:57 AM EDT |
gus3
It's not what MS says., because...............bla bla Do you know a way ( any way ) of putting 5 primary partitions on " one " hard drive ? I really would like to know Nikkels |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 15, 2008 2:26 AM EDT |
nikkels: You can't. It's in the very definition of "partition". If 3 plus one extended isn't good enough for you then you need some other scheme like slices or disklabels. |
| nikkels Aug 15, 2008 3:18 AM EDT |
Sander I know !! It's the fact that he wrote " in linux, as far as I know " which made me comment Note: If I knew where the " bold" , " italic" , " underline " etc was , my post would have been clearer than now. Sorry |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 15, 2008 3:36 AM EDT |
IIRC you can simply use HTML. |
| nikkels Aug 15, 2008 5:52 AM EDT |
I tried to use the normal html tags ..etc.., but they never work My apologies if I look stupid today. |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 15, 2008 7:20 AM EDT |
HTML tags are with < and > (see http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp), not with [ and ]. That's BBCode: http://www.bbcode.org/ See, it works! |
| rijelkentaurus Aug 15, 2008 7:30 AM EDT |
WOO-HOO!!!! :P |
| nikkels Aug 15, 2008 8:06 AM EDT |
Sander Thanks a lot rijelkentaurus I think you got a problem. |
| rijelkentaurus Aug 15, 2008 9:02 AM EDT |
A? :p |
| gus3 Aug 15, 2008 11:58 AM EDT |
Any disk-dividing system (partitions, slices, etc.) is only a data placement convention for the sake of software cross-compatibility. If you don't mind breaking that cross-compatibility, you can store the disk divisions anyway, anywhere you want. The only requirement is that the boot disk contain proper boot code in the first sector. If it's your own hacked-up boot code, so be it. The BIOS only cares that the last two bytes are 0x55 and 0xAA. The interpretation of the partition table is left to the code in the MBR. [Edit:] The above is true for a PC, and maybe some other hardware platforms. However, EFI, Open Boot PROM, and GUID partition tables do rely on having partition data in fixed locations on the hard disk. PA-RISC-based HP systems actually have UFS code in PROM, to load OS boot code directly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Boot_sequence_on_standa... |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 15, 2008 1:26 PM EDT |
Thanks to all of those, here and elsewhere, who pointed out that the four-primary-partition limit is a "legacy" of MS-DOS. I should probably make the move to LVM and leave all this loveliness behind me. |
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