Can a (second) hard disc consist of only 1 extended/logicalpartition? Or is at least one primary necessary?
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From: Andrew Gideon on 20 Apr 2008 11:36 On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:31:41 +0200, Aragorn wrote: > Technically, you can even do without a partition at all for GNU/Linux > and simply format the available diskspace, but this is not something I > would advise. Especially for UNIX systems, I am much rather a proponent > of using different partitions for specified branches of the filesystem > hierarchy tree. For instance, you best split off */var* and */home* > from the root filesystem, and have */tmp* exist on a /tmpfs./ The style I like is to have one partition for /boot and the rest of the disk in a single partition which is allocated to LVM. LVM volumes can then be created for /home, /usr, /var, etc. This permits new volumes to be created, or existing ones resized, w/o having to worry about the concept of "disk layout". This is also easily RAIDed by md. Adding a non-boot disk, I create a single partition and allocate that to LVM. In theory, this can be done using the entire disk (as opposed to a single partition consuming the entire disk). But someone not expecting this can be easily confused if he or she were to try to look at the disk's partition table, so I avoid that choice in following the principle of least astonishment. - Andrew |