[TriLUG] partitioning: primary or logical

[Jeremy P]

On 15 May 2002, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:54, Stephen R. Morris wrote:
> > The question is: Does it matter which partitions are physical (primary)
> > and which are logical (part of the extended partition)?
> 
> /boot and swap should probably be primary. Everything else can be
> logical. At least, it's worked that way on my systems.

Actually, neither one has to be primary.  Linux doesn't care.  You might
want to make /boot a primary partition in case you're using a non-Linux
bootloader (ie, not LILO or grub).    But swap certainly doesn't matter,
and obviously none of the rest of the partitions matter.

--Jeremy