[plug] Partitioning Hard Disk

[Craig Dyke]

Effectively Linux these days does not care where it is situated.
Therefore it can be safely placed in the extended partition as a logical
set (/boot, /usr , etc) of drives.

If you wish an alternate solution you could use your Linux distro to create
the partitions. This has the advantage that programs like fdisk under Linux
has only the restriction of 4 primary partitions (one of which should
contain
the extended partition if you want one)


Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Elliott" <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: [plug] Partitioning Hard Disk


> I have built a new machine with a 20 GB HDD
>
> I want to partition it so that approximately
> 10 GB is for Windows XP, and
> 10 GB is for Debian Linux
>
> I was just setting up these partitions using Partition Magic:
> 1.  10 GB NTFS  Primary  Active ... for WinXP
> 2.  54 MB Linux Ext2 for Linux Boot
> 2a   8 GB Linux Ext2 for /usr and so on
> 2b   1 GB Linux Swap for Swap sapce
>
> However, when you create a partition PQMagic wants you to specify whether
it
> is Primary,  Extended, or  Logical .... and I don't know what to do for 2.
> 2a.  and 2b
>
> I thought the linux Boot partition should be Primary but got a warning
> message that Windows will only accept one VISIBLE primary partition and
data
> may be lost if I boot into Windows.
>
> Should Linux be in an Extended partition or a Primary partition? ... and
> what should each Linux sub-partition be?  Primary or logical?
>
> As you can see  - I need help here  :o)
>
> James Elliott
>
>
>