On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:52:23 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > And an extended partition is a special type of primary partition. > > > > Or you can avoid all this legacy idiocy and confusion by using GPT, > > which lets you have a sensible number of partitions without fragile > > kludges. > > The entire point of my bindmounting procedure (remember the original > post?) is to minimize the number of partitions without strangling root > if a logger goes wild. I generally run with 3 partitions, including > swap.
So if you only need 3 partitions, why bother with an extended one in the first place? I'd still use GPT, it's just so much nicer. Or if you want to be properly bleeding edge, use btrfs and do away with all that bind mounting stuff, and get even more confusing df output... -- Neil Bothwick Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
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