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

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

| | | |
| | | |   #1 primary root
| | | |   #5 logical swap
| | | |   #6 logical /home
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| | | Do everybody agree about this?
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| | What are the reasons for primary and against logical partitions?
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| The reason for logical against primary is that the partition table is
| easier to be changed further.
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| 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.
                                                                                                                         

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:07:02PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 15.III.2004 at 20:29 Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > 
> > - Some firmware/OS wants to boot only from primary partitions
> 
> The current recipes of partman-auto try to make the partition
> containing the root file system primary.

So why not use all the time primary partitions?

> 
> > - Some disklabels don't have logical partitions, so keeping things
> >   similiar has some value
> 
> For these disklabels only primary partitions are created.

Once again:
So why not use all the time primary partitions?



Geert Stappers