why multiple ext3fs partions in a single dos partition is good.

Darren Reed (darrenr@cyber.com.au)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:29:40 +1000 (EST)


For those of us who don't run only linux, we may have 3 partitions already
setup for other operating systems, including DOS/Windows, with one of those
as an extended partition. Now the real problem is that you can't boot into
an extended partition, not to mention that I've yet to see an fdisk program
that will deal with two extended partitions. Now that I think of it, Linux
is the only PC Unix I use that requires one dos partition per ext2fs
partition. Solaris/FreeBSD/NetBSD all let you create /, /usr, /var all in
a single DOS partition.

Darren

p.s. I won't post about this again, I'm just surprised that Linux isn't
as capable in this area as the others and that the usefulness isn't
recognised.
p.p.s yes, I do have 4 operating systems on one disk at home.