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Basic disk vs dynamic disk (pros and cons) when using the disk management console?
I recently decided to undo a linux/win 7 dual boot setup on my boot drive using an image I made using Acronis. No problem. Somehow in the resizing of partitions, I made my data hard drive into a 'dynamic' disk. I only noticed this because of the different color scheme (basic disk=blue dynamic=puke green). What is different now? Should I change it back? If so, how? I've read a little and it seems the 'dynamic disk' option might be better should I opt to go with a multiple boot/OS setup,....which I am considering,.....
I am relatively pc literate, so what I'm really asking the yahoo answer community is to SIMPLY break down what the differences are.
If any are feeling up to the challenge, I'm also asking advice for a setup of 4 different linux distro installations on one drive.
I know this is a lot to ask, but I'll take a list of links to read the answers myself if it's too much to explain.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Basic, it's a lot less headeache, and generally more compatible and you the GPT format partition if you can (otherwise you'll be using logical partitions instead of primary ones)
root1
root2
root3
root4
swap (shared between all)
media file- should contain documents, picture, videos, music, downloads
(mount a /mnt/media in each distro with soft links from your /home/<user> directory)
(or set it up as a union mount to /home/<user>)