Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:59:20AM -0800, Bill Leach wrote: > > It seems to me that I have had more than 4 logical partitions on one drive > but memory being what it is (mine that is), I can not be certain. At this time, I have the main partition table filled, with one of those being an extended

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-20 Thread Bill Leach
I would not suggest worrying about using logical partitions in Linux. Though I don't really know, I suspect that there might be a little more overhead in accessing them (at least for mounting) but even if there is some for an aready mounted partition, it is my experience that you won't "see" t

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-20 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:17:22AM -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, robert havoc pennington wrote: > > > > How hard should I try to avoid logical partitions? What's the impact > > of using them? AFAIK, under Linux, none whatsoever. > everything's lost. Splitting things up

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-20 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, robert havoc pennington wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > > > The second thing to think about is the PC's somewhat dated partition > > scheme. You can only have 4 physical partitions on a drive, but you can > > divide those partition into logica

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-20 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > The second thing to think about is the PC's somewhat dated partition > scheme. You can only have 4 physical partitions on a drive, but you can > divide those partition into logical partitions. All things being equal, > it's better to avoid log

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Antonio Marrosu wrote: > I am about to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 on my computer. My > question would be which is the best way to distribute partitions for > my Linux installation on a 1.6GB which is connected to the secondary > controller in the MB as a Master having a C

Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-19 Thread Antonio Marrosu
Deal All: I am about to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 on my computer. My question would be which is the best way to distribute partitions for my Linux installation on a 1.6GB which is connected to the secondary controller in the MB as a Master having a CD-ROM as a