[ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

[Neil Greenwood]

2008/12/23 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>[snip]
> Now, partition it thus:
>
>  - 1 primary partition, ext3, 150GB (or whatever half the free space is) as /
>  - 1 extended partition of all the rest of the space
> in the extended partition:
>  - 1 logical partition of 151GB (or whatever the other half is) as /home
>  - another logical paritition, from there to the end of the disk, as swap
>

You don't need the primary partition with Linux. You can make one
extended partition that fills the disk and then put all the logical
partitions in there for /, /home, swap, etc.

Only Windows requires a primary partition, and it needs to be
bootable. Linux doesn't even need the boot flag.

Cofion,
Neil.