The why and the how of making such decisions is well covered in Redhat documentation which is in very accessible html on the support pages at redhat.com. On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When I tried the custom installation, I forget if it was disk druid or > fdisk but one of them asked if I wanted to make a primary or logical > partition each time I tried adding one. For the types discussed here, / > /usr /var /tmp swap and /home, which if any of them should be logical > rather than primary and why? I can understand making / bootable and > setting that as linux native but don't know what to do about the rest of > the partitions and why to do it. > > Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp