<div>On 9/12/06, Alexander Skwar <<a href="mailto:listen@alexander.skwar.name">listen@alexander.skwar.name</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> · Ewan Mac Mahon <<a href="mailto:ewan@macmahon.me.uk">ewan@macmahon.me.uk</a>>: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:08:39AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> · Tony Arnold <<a href="mailto:tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk"> tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk</a>>: >> > 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.</blockquote><div> Yes, an Extended Partition is A primary partition. <The English language is terribel> User Iam </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But yes, you're right. With LVM, there's no need to have any partitions at all. Alexander Skwar -- Alle Ketten der Meinung sind für mich zerbrochen; ich kenne nur die Ketten der Notwendigkeit. -- Jean-Jaques Rousseau -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div>