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



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?

- Some firmware/OS wants to boot only from primary partitions
- Some disklabels don't have logical partitions, so keeping things
  similiar has some value


Thiemo



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