waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > >> He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire >> hard drive" and "a small / partition". That made me think that he >> has two disks. > > Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical partitions are > numbered 5 and up. The "primary partition" is the entire physical disk.
Hm, I don't consider extended partitions as primary ones but as extended ones. When I need more than four partitions, I create three primary ones, an extended one and logical ones within the extended one. Why would I do that any other way? You cannot have a primary partition that covers the entire disk and then some.
