Quick question about partitioning

[RockLobster]

Hi All

Fairly new to Linux. I'm installing Arch Linux when creating the partitions should they be primary or logical partitions? Here's the setup I'm going for: -

32 MB ext2 /boot partition
256 MB swap partition
7.5 GB root partition
/home partition with the remaining space

 

[RockLobster]

Think I've found my answer basically you are only allowed a maximum of 4 primary partitions so if I just wanted the above I could just have all of them primary but I am limiting myself. One more thing I notice more and more that people aren't bothering with a boot partition. What is the boot partition for?