Partioning problem

[Ravi Kumar]

On 7/5/05, Daniel Cross <dcross at woosh.com> wrote:
> >I vaguely remember having to create primary partitions to
> >host the logical ones, but that was years and years ago... Debian
> Potato
> >time I think. By now it seems partitioners (e.g. cfdisk) handle things
> >better, I haven't had to create a primary partition in years!
> >
> >Well, to answer your question. You can have only 4 primary partitions,
> >if you want more you'll have to use logical partitions instead. AFAIK
> >there is no reason not to use only logical partitions in your system.
> 

The solution around this limitation is to create three primary
partitions and then an extended partition which can contain any number
of logical partitions .
OR
You can create LVMs instead of physical partitions. 

I have used the second path - creating logical volumes.

Ravi
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