Primary vs Logical Partitions?

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Friday 07 September 2007 04:34:56 Tony Arnold wrote:
> Yes, an extended partition acts as a container for more partitions.
> These are known as logical partitions and is how you usually get over
> the 4 partition limit. I can't remember the limit for how many you can
> have in one extended partition.

For IDE the max is 63 (4 primary/extended and 59 logical).
For SCSI the max is 15.

See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/installation/42716-maximum-partitions-linux.html
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-33727-Linux-Max-Partitions63.html

HTH,
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