RE: Partitions Compression

[Paul Sims <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Not really - if you want to run multiple OS's selected by a boot manager
like System Commander, having several primary partitions is useful as they
have the Active flag toggled to select the OS to boot.

Anyway, this is drifting slowly into the OT sunset........

Maniac over out.

ps> I used (almost) deliberately. Most Linux hobbyists/students
ps> (and most sysadmins for that matter) will never use more than
ps> a handful of the 64 logical partitions available, and so I
ps> stand by my original statement. Yes, the limit is finite but
ps> almost inconsequential.

By that logic, the limit of 4 hardware partitions is almost
inconsequential, since most professionals, let alone
hobbyists/students, never use more than 2 hardware partitions. Only a
very tiny minority of truly crazed fanatics use Linux, after all.
Real people use Wintels and Macs.

:-)

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