Robert roberth@abbacomm.net wrote:
greetings bryan, did you say that in your experience the /var partition should _not_ be on the extended partition table
for
"recovery" purposes?
Nope, not at all.
I put /var in Extended, LVM and, if you can believe it, even LDM (yes, Windows "dynamic disk" disk label format ;-).
I only avoid putting root (/) in anything but a primary partition for recoverability. Even if I use a separate /boot (I rarely do -- I keep my root do only a few GBs max), I still like it outside of any compound disk label.