[lug] Partitioning hd

[j davis]

i feel your pain....when i use to dual boot , and i would want to reinstall
windoz...i would shit my pants when i typed "fdisk" from win boot floppy,
the fear of accident due to drive labeling caused me to 86 windoz for a 
while..
now i just have to seprate disk for each distro and i unplug my linux disk
anytime i use fdisk or format from a boot floppy. fyi...windoz only for 
Flash.

jd


>From: "D. Stimits" <stimits at idcomm.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] Partitioning hd
>Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:36:32 -0600
>
>j davis wrote:
>>
>>
>>yes i know that if you have 4 partions or less they can all be primary
>>but that is not your case...anyway to get to the point....it really doesnt 
>>matter
>>how you partion...i always force /boot /root /user to be primary, i dont
>>know if this is the best way.
>
>I personally got tired of windows getting upset with primary partitions 
>moving around (it tries to relabel drives after that), so I make /boot/ 
>primary, and all else extended/logical (on machines that dual boot with 
>windows, and in which there is any chance at all of changing the linux 
>partitions).
>
>I do see one minor possibility of why primary would be perceived as faster 
>than extended/logical, but it is only an illusion: Outer cylinder 
>partitions are where people would place primaries, and extended/logical (as 
>far as I know) never occur in a cylinder outside of the primaries. Disk 
>performance itself is faster on outer cylinders, so anyone measuring two 
>partitions sitting side-by-side and not knowing about outer/inner cylinder 
>differences might be fooled into thinking it is the partition type that 
>changes the performance.
>
>D. Stimits, stimits AT idcomm.com
>
>>
>>jd
>>
>>
>>>From: "Peter Hutnick" <peter-lists at hutnick.com>
>>>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>>>To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>>>Subject: Re: [lug] Partitioning hd
>>>Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:15:11 -0600 (MDT)
>>>
>>> >
>>> > its my understanding that primary partions (ones not in a extended
>>> > partion) will run faster.
>>>
>>>Why would primaries be faster?  I don't think they are.
>>>
>>> > and i think you can only have three partions
>>> > be primary the  4th
>>> > is the extended and everything there after is in the extended
>>> > partion...kind  of
>>> > a virtual partion i guess.
>>>
>>>You can have up to 4 partitions and one of them may be an extended
>>>partition, which can contain many (I have no idea how many) logical
>>>drives.  It /is/ possible to have 4 primaries.
>>>
>>>-Peter
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>thanks,
>>jd
>>
>>jd at taproot.bz
>>http://www.taproot.
>>
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thanks,
jd

jd at taproot.bz
http://www.taproot.bz

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