The additional calculations would only be during mount of the filesystem on the partition.
I prefer to only use primary partitions because I am always messing with them and they are easier to keep track of when they are all defined in one place, sector 0,0,0. I usually use Norton diskedit to create or change my partitions. I do not trust M$ fdisk it can be brutal. In spite of the fact that the M$ fdisk prohibits you from creating more than one primary fat partition, and NT warns you about it when you do it,I have never had a problem with accessing multiple fat primary partitions on the same drive using dos 3.3 and up, OS/2, Win95, NT or Linux. --Brian N. Borg Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > Hi, > > the docs. in /usr/doc/lilo are very good to understand the concept of > primary and extended partitions (and the logical partitions contained > in these extended partitions). However, I would like to know if there > is any perfomance hit if extended partitions are used instead of > primary partitions. I guess more calculations are needed to access a > specific sector in the hard disk in the case of extended partitions. > > Any suggestions on which kind of partitions is better? > > Thanks in advance. > > E.- > > -- > > Eloy A. Paris > Information Technology Department > Rockwell Automation de Venezuela > Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
