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--- "Don{ald} O. Woodall" 
wrote:
> In
>
,
> on 12/15/2003 
>    at 04:35 PM, "Robert Traynor  (BobT)"
>  said:
> 
> >Because:-
> >(a.) I can
> >(b.) I did
> >(c.) It is a test system,...
> 
>      That answers a whole boat load of questions.
> 
> >>      Why is it a Primary partition instead of a
> Logical volume?
> 
> >?  What is wrong with a Primary.? Don't understand
> where you are coming
> >from.
> 
>      Well, if you are like me and like a lot of
> smaller volumes, the MBR (
> Master Boot Record ) limits a physical hard drive to
> 4 primary partitions.
> 
>      In this situation a "primary partition is
> defined as:
> 
>         1.  a Primary partition
> 
>         2.  The OS/2\eCS Boot Manager
> 
>         3.  The no longer mentioned "Extended
> Partition" in which
>             all Logical volumes reside.
> 
>      So, for some people, it is REAL easy to use up
> all the MBR's primary
> partition pointers and end up with massive amounts
> of unusable free space.
> 
>      If that is not a problem for you, then you
> don't need to worry about
> it.
> 
> >No.  That is what big disks are for.  Seriously who
> cares these days.?
> 
>      Umm, I do.  I tend to trash my operating system
> partitions and want
> to be in a position of just needing to replace that
> and to have all my
> apps and data safely in another volume.  It is a
> matter of personal
> preference.
> 
> >Disks are cheap and 750mb of installed eCS or os2
> on a 1gb partition,
> >will  still zip up to the same sized zip file as
> the SAME os installed
> >into a 2 gb partition.  So why worry.?
> 
>      Yes they are.  That is why I have..........

Hmmm. A tiny error, a disk is limited to 4 partitions,
not primary partitions. Extended is not considered
primary as much as I have read. But I shouldn't
nitpick. Mayby it is. One may have up to 3 primary and
one extended on one hard drive, or 4 primaries if one
wants, as you stated.

I have come to need two primary partitions as I no
longer use Boot Manager, If I used BM I would need 3.
I prefer as you do to have a small partition for the
operating system. Now I'm using ECS and found the
wonders of JFS it makes even more sense. The operating
system cannot be on a JFS format, so HPFS it is. I
have a 800 meg HPFS partition with ECS 1.1 on it, and
39 gigs of JFS for everything else. Here's a huge
advantage of a small OS partition - If you have an
abnormal shutdown and the next boot uses chkdsk to
check and repair the C: partition, being small it is
done quickly and little wait is incurred. And as
Robert, I tend to trash my OS sometimes because I
tinker a lot.

I have a 40 gig and 80 gig drive now and here's the
setup:
HD0 40 gig
Part1 800meg primary fat32 win98 os
Part2 800meg primary hpfs ECS os
Part3 2048 meg logical fat16
Part4 (the rest) logical fat32

HD1 80 gig
Part1 39 gig logical JFS OS/2
Parts 2,3,4 Linux Mandrake 9.0

LILO boot manager on mbr

Windows is the worst for space on the os partition as
every app installed will add some trash to the
windows\system on drive C, even if installed on drive
E:. How archaic. Another reason OS/2 is better.

Franklin

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