[Gllug] Partioning advice needed

[Mike Brodbelt]

Dan Kolb wrote:
> I can't comment about sd2, but you do need sda3. As a relic of the good ol'
> days of DOS, you can have up to four primary partitions, everything else would
> have to live in an extended partition. DOS' fdisk would only allow you to
> create one primary and one extended partition, which would be split into
> various logical drives.

This is true, but if you only need 4 or less partitions on the disk, you
 don't have to have an extended partition at all. So if all he wanted
was /, /home and swap, then you could just have /dev/sda{1,2,3} and be
happy. Most installers fail to figure this out though, and create an
extended partition anyway.

When I partition disks these days, they tend to get split into /boot,
and "the rest", where the latter just gets shoved under LVM and carved
up from there. I typically don't even bother allocating the whole disk
when I'm not sure where I'll need the space - it's easy enough to just
grow the logical volume and filesystem as needed.

Mike

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