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SubjectRe: re. multiple ext2fs partitions.
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> Is anyone working on making Linux use labels inside a Linux fdisk DOS
> partition (be it primary or logical in an extended partition) so that
> you can have > 1 ext2fs partition per fdisk/DOS partition ? (That is
> similar to how BSD/Solaris do it, so I allocate 1 Linux partition and
> then segment that up into swap, /, /usr. etc).

If you enable BSD disklabel support in your compile you can use BSD
disklabels. Linux can't currently nest them however that would be easy
to add if someone had a really perverse need for it, as would be pinching
a new partition type for "recursive dos partitioning".

Alan


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