Is there a limit on primary partitions
Here is my computer setup From Windows
31MB Fat Primary Partition Dell 24.94GB NTFS Primary Partition Might be swap 102MB Primary Partition Extended Partition 2.87GB 1 Logical Drive 24.94GB NTFS Primary Partition Resize this I am thinking its 4 Number/Partition/Type/Size 01 /dev/hda1 Fat16 31.35MB Primary Partition 02 /dev/hda2 NTFS 24.94GB Primary Partition 03 /dev/hda3 ext3 101.97MB Primary Partition 04 /dev/hda4 extended 2.87GB 05 /dev/hda5 unknown 2.87GB That unknown is LVM in Fedora Core 4 Also Do Extended and Swap count as Primary |
I don't know the underlying reasons, but yes, a hard drive is limited to 4 primary partitions.
I also believe that an extended partition itself counts as one of your four primary partitions. Its primary purpose of course is to allow more than 4 partitions per drive. |
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