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On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:13:29AM +0100, lee wrote |
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> waltdnes@××××××××.org writes: |
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> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote |
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> >> He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire |
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> >> hard drive" and "a small / partition". That made me think that he |
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> >> has two disks. |
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> > Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical partitions are |
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> > numbered 5 and up. The "primary partition" is the entire physical disk. |
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> Hm, I don't consider extended partitions as primary ones but as extended |
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> ones. When I need more than four partitions, I create three primary |
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> ones, an extended one and logical ones within the extended one. Why |
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> would I do that any other way? |
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> You cannot have a primary partition that covers the entire disk and then |
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> some. |
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OK, Primary and/or Extended partitions are numbered 1-to-4. Logical |
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partitions within extended partitions are numbered 5 and up. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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