On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 04:49:41PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Did a couple of trial installs of Wheezy in VirtualBox in anticipation of the real thing on an as yet to be purchased notebook, and noticed something puzzling with the Guided-Encrypted-LVM partitioning option. (I've never done encryption on my systems before.) The installer used a "classic" Extended partition, i.e. sda5, instead of a Primary one on which to place the LVMs: /, swap, /home. /boot was a Primary, as expected. Seems like a unneeded use of a logical partition layer on which to place another layer of logical partitions. > > Any valid reason for doing this? No evidence to support this, but I suspect the reason the installer prefers a logical partition is that Linux is perfectly happy booting from one. There are, I suspect, a significant proportion of people who install Debian alongside Windows and, notably, that needs (at least one) primary partition to boot from.
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