Primary vs Logical Partitions?

[Lea Gris]

James Taji a écrit :
> On 9/6/07, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>> Despite all my research on this subject, I'm still unclear on some things.
>>
>> If I have my facts straight, you can only have a total of 4 primary
>> partitions.
>>
>> If you've got 2 hard drives you could have one on one and 3 on the other
>> (or two on each) but the end result is the total can't be more than 4.
> 
> The limit of 4 primary partitions is per disk.
> 
>> And if I have this straight, you can also have a drive with *no* primary
>> partition. Said drive would have an extended partition and 4 (or 9....)
>> logical partitions within that.
> 
> Not exactly, an extended partition IS a primary partition. 1 of the 4
> primary partitions can be an extended partition.ing a partition table

Exactly, and, if you intend on using a whole disk, there is no real need
in adding partitions at all. Just create the filesystem on the root
block device like /dev/hdb instead /dev/hdb1 ... 2 ... 3

Avoiding a partition table wil save a few blocks and will save
boundaries limitations affecting partition start and end.



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