Re: Partitions: Primary vs. Logical
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:07:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:47:46AM -0400, Disem (disem@quanta.net.py) wrote:
| > Hi everybody :D
| >
| > What is the advantage of using Primary partitions rather than the Logical
| > ones ? Does somebody
| > know the difference between both of them (besides the limitation of times
| > that can be the Primaries created)
|
| It makes little practical difference.
It does if you want "suspend to disk" on a laptop (this one at least
requires a primary partition) and IIRC windows (maybe just win95 or
win98) requires a primary partition to boot from.
You're right though that linux doesn't really care.
-D
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