Question

[Derek Broughton]

Alexandra Zaharia wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Gernot Hassenpflug
> <aikishugyo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I suggest making the swap partition a primary one [...]
> 
> I'm really curious: why would you want to do that? I mean, why use up
> a handy primary partition just for swap? I always have my swap
> partition inside the extended one. My lack of understanding regarding
> your suggestion comes from that fact that, being given a hard disk,
> one is allowed to have up to 4 partitions on it: 3 primary and a 4th
> one extended - which can keep more logical partitions inside. Linux is
> a 'good guy' and accepts being installed onto a logical partition, but
> other operating systems aren't: FreeBSD for sure and maybe Vista too
> (not sure, the last Windows version I'm acquainted with is XP).

I agree.  I'm not sure how many OS's there still are that insist on being on
a Primary, but never waste a primary partition for swap.
-- 
derek