[Novices] Hard Drive Partitioning

[Brock Inglehart]

What is the difference between a logical partition and a primary
partition?  And does it apply to Windows only or to both Windows and
Linux?
Brock

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 22:26 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > I bought a new 120Gb hard drive for an older system.  I still need the
> > system to run Win98 but that is only occasionally.  I thought I would
> > make this one a dual boot system to try out some of the Linux business
> > apps.
> > 
> > My questions are: 
> > A) What is the best way to partition this for the dual boot?  
> 
> Give yourself whatever you need for Win98 and the rest for Linux.
> 
> Or if this is really a _new_ drive, leave W98 on your old hard drive
> and put Linux on the new hard drive.
> 
> > B)Should the swap partition be a primary partition or can it be a
> > logical one?
> 
> Either, makes no difference.
> 
> > C)  I'd like to have 3 partitions for the windows side; an OS partition,
> > a programs partition and a data partition.  I was going to make the
> > program and data logical partitions.  If I do this would Linux be able
> > to read the data partition?
> 
> Linux can read and write to FAT/VFAT/FAT32 partitions perfectly.
> And Linux doesn't care if the partitions are primary or secondary.
> 
>  - BS
> 
> 
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