Re: re. multiple ext2fs partitions.
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 01:38:09 +0100 (BST)
> 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