Out of Space

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 23:42:10 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>well, "nowadays" you would probably also just be clever enough to use a
>GPT and not have to deal with stuff like primary or extended partitions

That might be right, I should take a look at it in a virtual machine.
I fear everything new regarding partitions, because of the experiences
I made with IIRC it was LVM on Linux and also with FreeBSD slices. I
guess I often confused GPT with LVM or something like this. maybe MBR
isn't the best choice, OTOH many users are used to it and Richards HDDs
have small sizes.

Apropos confusion:

On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 16:44:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>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
                                                   logical partitions ;)
>you like

Oops ;)

Regards,
Ralf