Out of Space

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 15:27:57 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>> /dev/sda1 primary
>> /dev/sda2 primary
>> /dev/sda3 primary
>> /dev/sda4 extended
>> /dev/sda5
>> /dev/sdan  
>
>***NO!*** This makes it impossible to add more partitions and is very
>bad advice.

That is wrong, I explain it below the next quote.

>It is perfectly possible to add new primaries afterwards. This is
>_DISASTROUSLY_ bad advice!

Are you sure? Anyway, even if it should be possible, in the above
example the fourth partition is an extended partition, so it is
possible to rearrange the formatting with as much extended partitions
you like, but because there are three, instead of just one partition,
you could install at least three operating systems that require a
primary partition, as already pointed out e.g. FreeBSD does.

Regarding having e.g. the install on sda and the data on sdb imagine
that parts of a program are not in the memory and need to be loaded and
at the same time, e.g. an audio workstation needs to read and write
audio files with some buffering, but still in real-time.

On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 15:31:50 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>On 7 August 2016 at 12:47, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>> I disagree with that advice Ralf. I have had a newer kernel just
>> installed, to be located far enough into the disk that the bios could
>> not reach it to boot it.  
>
>What kind of PC and what kind of disk and controller?

Most important is the machine Richard is using and regarding the output
of lshw, this issue will not be an issue on the machine he is using.

Regards,
Ralf