From: "Tony Nelson" <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 12:28 PM -0400 10/2/06, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 11:02 AM -0400 10/2/06, Tom Diehl wrote:
...
>Will it let you make another primary partition?? I cannot remember
>if you can have 2 extended partitions or not.
I think one /can/, but it is contrary to specification (which you
showed below), which says there can be only one Extended partition
in a Basic partition table. There can certainly be both an Extended
and an LVM partition in a Basic partition table.
but wouldn't that LVM correspond to just a primary partition? thus
not violating the general rule of only one extended partition?
Yes.
In an abstract sense I'd love to know what limits a disk to only one
extended partition other than legacy and sloppy code. I've had two
extended partitions on other systems before. I think I did that with
the 2.0.x kernel tree at one time, too. All that's needed is simply
traversing the partition tables sensibly.
{^_^}
