On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. When you say "it refused" what's it? Sounds like a bug though. EBRs are really simple things, there's nothing magical about them, but an EBR defines both its own partition start-end, and points to the next EBR. So it's possible an EBR points to a corrupt EBR and that triggers the problem. And it might even be a sort of mis-feature designed to keep the user from inadvertently deleting something in such an ambiguous state. Anyway, it's kinda hard to know what's going on here without an actual example: partition data and what tool is rejecting the modification. > It's a horrid scheme, only surpassed in evilness by the bastard LVM. OK well, it at least solves the non-contiguous regions problem of partitions by presenting those regions as if they were contiguous. So if you're going to reject MBR, EBR and LVM, you're left with GPT. While that has redundant and checksummed partition data, it doesn't solve the discontiguous space issue. And you're at the whim of your firmware, whether it'll tolerate GPT without face planting. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
