On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:10:47PM -0000, Jeff Lane wrote: > Personally, I really do NOT like the use of extended partitions in > default partitioning schemes. There's really no reason at all for the > defaut partition scheme to look like this. I could see it for a custom > scheme that involved more than 4 partitions, but for this, no.
Using logical partitions wherever possible is much friendlier to multi-boot systems, and in general puts much less stress on partitioning algorithms that have to cope with the deficient but pervasive MS-DOS partition table format. Since Ubuntu occasionally suffers from installation problems on systems that already had four primary partitions in place (or indeed, on some older BIOSes, three primary partitions), it behooves us not to contribute to this situation ourselves. -- os-prober hangs on /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda2 and sda2 not present https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528073 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
