Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

[Bogdan]

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:10:20AM -0700, Bogdan wrote:

> > Only one of the 4 primary partitions can be active. So, turn whatever is 
> > not 

> > needed into an extended partition. What tools with this screw over? Or, are 
>we 
>
> > talking about OSes that don't support extended partitions here?
>
> That would probably require resizing the filesystem since a logical
> partition needs to leave space for the extended partition table, not to
> mentioned screw up alignment of partitions too.

I'd be more worried about the space required by the actual partition, not the 
space required for the partition table (that requires 1 sector only). Either 
way, it the user has no more free space when (s)he wishes to install GRUB, 
(s)he 
would be asked to resize a partition on his/her own (since otherwise GRUB would 
need to interpret every file system out there).

Cheers,
Bogdan