[TriLUG] partitioning: primary or logical

[Henryk M. Kowalski]

Jeremy P wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Ah, yes; but _why_ doesn't it matter?  Is it because they don't
physically have to live on a HD at all?  Can they be network shares (NFS
or Samba), for instance?  Now that you've piqued our curiosity, can you
elaborate?  
(Oops! Sorry, it seems my newbie-isms are showing.)

--hmk