Re: howmany partitions per disk possible?

Alan McKinnon wrote:
For future reference, the total complete entire purpose and
reason for the existence of primary/extended/logical
paertitions is a hack to get around yet another microsoft
screw-up. MSDOS 2 misjudged how many partitions people would
want to have and the current insane partition structure is
still the same patch that worked around that. There is no
correct way to structure these things, and Linux couldn't care
less what type of partitions you use, whether logical or
primary they can all be used and be booted from. Some other
OSes do care about this, Linux ain't one of 'em :-)

alan


....but having said this, the limit is 4 primary partitions per disk.

Zoltan


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