On Friday 19 November 2010 14:42:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:52:50 +0000, Mick wrote: > > Also primary partitions which he does not seem to be using at all > > have a slight edge over logical. > > Do you have any data on this? I generally use all logical partitions > but could be persuaded to rethink.
Well there must be one level of indirection on first access, since the start of the logical partition has to be looked up in a "primary" partition, but I can't imagine that being needed more than once per reboot. FWIW I use primaries for /boot, primary swap and (often) / but can't for anything else. I do this to obtain more accessible partitions because I used to try to cram several distros into one box. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
