Chapter 2. Preinstallation and Installation
repartitioning
master boot record
three kinds of partitions : primary, extended, and logical.
four-partition limit: due to the poor design of MS-DOS and Windows
only one extended partition per drive.
It is possible to have a single filesystem span multiple drives by using a tool called Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
swap file VS swap partition: 2GB each, but as many as up to 32 partitions or files in all
repartitioning
master boot record
three kinds of partitions : primary, extended, and logical.
four-partition limit: due to the poor design of MS-DOS and Windows
only one extended partition per drive.
It is possible to have a single filesystem span multiple drives by using a tool called Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
swap file VS swap partition: 2GB each, but as many as up to 32 partitions or files in all