Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

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> Back in the (DOS/w95) days, you would usually create one primary and one
> extended, and populate the extended with as many partitions as you want.

IIRC the reason why there was still that one primary was that you could
only boot to a primary partition.

BTW, I don't use extended partitions any more, but I reproduce the above
structure because I typically have one smallish [the 500MB HDDs of our
64bit DEC Alpha workstations felt quite spacious back then]
partition for /boot and a second for LVM  :-)


        Stefan

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virtualisation "mick.crane" <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 20:50 +0200
  Re: virtualisation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-05-22 21:30 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2023-05-22 21:40 +0200
      Re: virtualisation "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-05-22 21:50 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-05-22 22:40 +0200
  Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-23 00:20 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-05-23 15:10 +0200
    Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-24 00:10 +0200
      Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-24 10:40 +0200
        Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-24 20:50 +0200
      Re: virtualisation Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2023-05-26 10:20 +0200
        GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-05-26 11:50 +0200
          Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-26 12:50 +0200
          Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2023-05-27 11:40 +0200
            Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-05-27 17:50 +0200
            Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-28 05:20 +0200
          Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> - 2023-05-27 19:20 +0200
            Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-27 20:00 +0200
        Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-26 12:40 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-05-25 18:30 +0200

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