You are right. In GPT, they are just called partitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
The whole reason there is primary, extended and logical partitions on legacy disk partition tables is because there was not a perceived need for >4 partitions. As hard disk size grows, BIOS is enhanced to create extended partitions to go around the limitation. The 4 primary partition limit is there for backward compatibility and has been stuck since. Best regards, Hanxue On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > I just want to ask about the limit of primary partition. As I refer to this > page > > http://sfdoccentral.symantec.com/vom/4.0/win_unix/html/vom_winadm_addon_users/SFW_VOM40/NewPartitionHeader.htm > > "An MBR disk can contain up to four primary partitions" > "A GPT disk can contain a maximum of 128 primary partitions." > > I understand the term "primary" here because only MBR makes the > primary/extended/logical distinction. GPT supports 128 partitions by > default but as I understand it doesn't called primary partitions. > Symantec could be wrong. Could you please enlighten me? > > > Thank you, > Hasanuddin Abu Bakar > GSEC #28858 > IT Security Engineer > +6017 913 1983 > > Sigma Rectrix Systems (M) Sdn Bhd > No.15 & 15-1, Jalan Equine 9A, > Equine Park, Bandar Putra Permai > 43300 Seri Kembangan Selangor > URL : www.sigmarectrix.com > > Phone : 03-89486696 > Fax : 03-89487796 > Helpdesk : 03-89486596 > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > Malaysia Open Source Conference 2011 > MOSC2011 http://blog.mosc.my/ and http://www.mosc.my/ > > Milking the Cloud Competition for MOSC2011 > > > http://www.mosc.my/articles/item/7-milking-the-cloud-competition-for-mosc2011 > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information Malaysia Open Source Conference 2011 MOSC2011 http://blog.mosc.my/ and http://www.mosc.my/ Milking the Cloud Competition for MOSC2011 http://www.mosc.my/articles/item/7-milking-the-cloud-competition-for-mosc2011
