Vikki Roemer wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com> wrote:DOS, and then Windows, allowed seeing only the active primary partition because it was the boot environment, and MS presumed that some other OS, that DOS was not compatible with, would reside on any other primary partitions (this is a theory on my part, but seems to fit the facts).Windows can see multiple partitions. 4 logicals, yadda ya, like Linux. In fact, I've heard of setups where multiple partitions work better than one big one. Starting with XP (I think) a separate partition for {\Windows\,\Program Files\} and {\Documents and Settings\, etc} is recommended. I'd have to double-check at school, though. (I only remember enough Windows stuff to pass tests, and then forget most of it afterwards.) But anyway, the WinXP computers at school have multiple partitions. WinXP *does* seem to see thumbdrives weirdly, though.
One: please direct your replies to the list, not me personally. Because: a) others may benefit from your comments; b) I subscribe to the list and would prefer to get list related email through it.
Two: You said "...4 logicals, yadda ya, ...", above. The discussion was not about logical partitions, it was about *primary* partitions.
As far as I'm aware, DOS/Windows recommends creating a single primary partition, with any extra space allocated to the extended partition which is then subdivided into logical partitions. This is what I understand and what you, I believe, are saying, as well.
Linux, Windows, Solaris x86 and any other OS that runs on x86 architecture while using the DOS/Windows based partitioning scheme will handle any number (I suppose there's an upper limit, I have no idea what it might be) of *logical* partitions created within a single *extended* partition.
The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk.
-- Bob McGowan
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