Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: re. multiple ext2fs partitions. | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 1997 01:38:09 +0100 (BST) |
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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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