[Gllug] Partioning advice needed

[Nix]

On 15 Feb 2007, Dan Kolb said:
> In your case, your /dev/sda1 and sda2 are 'primary' partitions, and your sda3
> is marked as an extended partition, which is further split up into sda5 and 6.
>
> Hurrah for backwards compatibility and PC hacks, eh?

Quite so.

The *right* thing to do is to ditch the lot and go LVM, one VG per
physical disk, probably (and if you can afford it, get extra disks and
go LVM-on-RAID across all of them at once ;) ).

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