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   Verily I say unto thee, that Lawrence D'Oliveiro spake thusly:   
   > In message , Erik_jan wrote:   
   >   
   >> On my computer I have three partitions for my linux installation,   
   >> root, swap and home. I do not know however whether all these must be   
   >> primary or not.   
   >   
   > They can be anything you like. On my oldest Linux box, the swap is a   
   > primary partition, while both the OS installation and /home are   
   > extended.   
   >   
   > Linux even automatically recognizes other partition formats besides   
   > the common DOS/Windows one. You simply don’t have to care.   
      
   Yes, including BSD disklabels with support for up to 16 partitions, and   
   LVM2 supporting up to 2048 volumes.   
      
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