Bug#237534: inst report: lots of partman and LVM issues

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 15.III.2004 at 19:58 Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 17:49, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > On 11.III.2004 at 23:28 Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > The automatically partitinoner made good default choices, but I don't
> > > like that it decided to use logical partitions.  If it creates 4 or less
> > > partitions, I think only primary partitions should be used.  Instead, it
> > > created:
> > >
> > >   #1 primary root
> > >   #5 logical swap
> > >   #6 logical /home
> >
> > Do everybody agree about this?
> 
> What are the reasons for primary and against logical partitions?

The reason for logical against primary is that the partition table is
easier to be changed further.

The reason for primary against logical is that the numbers of the
primary partitions do not change.

I prefer logical partitions but I am not too much persuaded of this.

Anton Zinoviev