On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 13:23 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
Using the 4 partitions as primary is bad practice because it
prevents
additional partitions for no good reason. There isn't a negative to
having extended partitions, GRUB can even boot from a /boot partition
on an extended partition.
Until you come to repartitioning a disc when you want to keep some of
the stuff on it. I've had discs where I wanted to remove the extended
partition, and keep the first normal partition, then re-use the rest of
the disc. It refused to delete the extended partition because it
insisted that there was a virtual partition inside it, but there wasn't.
It's a horrid scheme, only surpassed in evilness by the bastard LVM.
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