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cool_arrow

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Registered: 2009-01-21

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any disadvantage to having Arch in extended partition?

Just realized I installed into a partition created on an extended partition.  Any disadvantges/complexity by doing so?  Thanks.

brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: any disadvantage to having Arch in extended partition?

There's nothing wrong with that. Don't worry.

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,577

Re: any disadvantage to having Arch in extended partition?

Nope. Your boot partition (/boot, with GRUB) must be on a primary partition - as long as you've done that, you're good.

MattSmith

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From: Wellington, New Zealand

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 108

Re: any disadvantage to having Arch in extended partition?

Actually, you don't need to specify /boot as primary. When I set up arch not too long ago I set

/
/var
/swap
/home

as different partition. Obviously /boot is in / , but once you have your extended partition set up, you shouldn't really need to do anything different than you would if they were primary partitions.

Here's what my partition layout looks like, in case this helps anyone.

 Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3ffc3ff

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       16035   128793596    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           16035       24958    71680000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           24958       30401    43721408+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           24958       26174     9767488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           26174       26843     5373711   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           26843       27390     4393746   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8           27390       30401    24186337   83  Linux

*see the extend shows up almost as a pointer to /dev/sda5 I believe. It is on /dev/sda5 where my /boot is located.

edit: but grub must be on ur primary, i.e sda (MBR) like Ranguvar said.

Last edited by MattSmith (2009-03-04 06:57:44)

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