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On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:35:34PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:27:18 -0500, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> > OK, Primary and/or Extended partitions are numbered 1-to-4. Logical |
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> > partitions within extended partitions are numbered 5 and up. |
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> And an extended partition is a special type of primary partition. |
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> Or you can avoid all this legacy idiocy and confusion by using GPT, which |
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> lets you have a sensible number of partitions without fragile kludges. |
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The entire point of my bindmounting procedure (remember the original |
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post?) is to minimize the number of partitions without strangling root |
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if a logger goes wild. I generally run with 3 partitions, including |
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swap. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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