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<bennym>

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From: South-West Germany near Stuttg

Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 26

logical, extended I am confussed .

Hi
I installed windows xp on my harddisk and now I want to install arch.
How do i make the partition? logical or extended?

I have one partition with 15 Gig (windows) labeled logical and one 30 Gig (windows games)labeled extended. Then I want to make a 512MB swap partition and I want to use the rest of the harddisk for arch.

Do I have to label the swap logical or extended? and what about the arch partition?

Thank you
benny

<bennym>

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From: South-West Germany near Stuttg

Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 26

Re: logical, extended I am confussed .

and what about the boot flag. can i let it oh the windows partition?

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: logical, extended I am confussed .

A harddrive can contain up to 4 partitions - socalled "primary partitions". But because of the growing need for more partitions, some smart guy (or gal?) invented "extended partitions". Extended partitions act as containers, that can contain "logical partitions". The extended partitions has to be a primary partition.

In other words:
Primary partition - a partition specified in the harddrive's partition table
Extended partition - a primary partition that has a partition table and other partitions in it
Logical partition - a partition contained within an extended partition

I hope this clears something up.

<bennym>

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From: South-West Germany near Stuttg

Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 26

Re: logical, extended I am confussed .

so can I label my swap and archlinux partition logical?

zen_guerrilla

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Registered: 2002-12-22

Posts: 259

Re: logical, extended I am confussed .

Linux regular and swap partitions can be logical ones. Windows also supports filesystems on logical partitions but the partition with the Windows installation must be primary (BSDs work the same way).

<bennym>

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From: South-West Germany near Stuttg

Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 26

Re: logical, extended I am confussed .

thank you jaboua and zen gorilla !!!

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: logical, extended I am confussed .

And yes just let the bootflag be on windows, linux boots fine without it

<bennym>

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From: South-West Germany near Stuttg

Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 26

Re: logical, extended I am confussed .

That's what I did. And it works fine. Thank you once more!