On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:13:29AM +0100, lee wrote > [email protected] 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.
OK, Primary and/or Extended partitions are numbered 1-to-4. Logical partitions within extended partitions are numbered 5 and up. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
