howmany partitions per disk possible?

User Iam vramnum10 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 06:52:07 UTC 2006


On 9/12/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>
> · Ewan Mac Mahon <ewan at macmahon.me.uk>:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:08:39AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> >> · Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>:
> >> > I mean there are no primary partitions on the disk at all!
> >>
> >> That's impossible.
> >
> > ICBW, but being uber-picky, I believe it is possible to use an
> > unpartitioned block device directly as a PV, in which case it
> > would not need a partition table.
>
> Hehe, yes, you're right :)
>
> But please see the context in which that was said. Tony said,
> that he doesn't have any *primary* partitions but just an extended
> partition. Extended Partitions *are* primary partitions.



Yes, an Extended Partition is A primary partition.
<The English language is terribel>

User Iam



But yes, you're right. With LVM, there's no need to have
> any partitions at all.
>
> Alexander Skwar
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