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Sent: 26 May, 1999 4:51 AM
Subject: HD Partition
>
> I am quite confuse with the PC hard disk partition. After reading
> some manual and info from the web, I am still confuse. I have some
> problem with install linux on a extended partiton before, not sure is
> the HD problem or the configuration. For safety now I install linux only
> on the primary partition.
>
> Few question to ask here:
>
> 1. PC HD can have only 4 primary partiton, but unlimited extended
> partition?
>
> 2. In Dos/Windows fdisk, I am able to create Primary and extended
> partition, but the extended partition show in Dos/Windows fdisk is same
> with the linux extended partition?
>
> 3. If I already use up two partition for my Windows system, am I able
> to create another three partition(1 for linux system, 1 for user data, 1
> for swap) for linux since PC HD support only 4 primary partition.
>
> 4. max size for linux swap partition is 16, and max no of linux swap
> partiton is 8. Kernal 2.0 and 2.2 still having this limit?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
