multiple extended partitions?

dasy2k1 · 01-07-2007, 09:01 AM

is it possable to have multiple extended partitions? eg.

sda1 Primary
sda2 Primary
sda3 extended
sda5 logical
sda6 logical
sda7 logical
sda4 extended
sda8 logical
sda9 logical

avallach · 01-07-2007, 09:58 AM

AFAIK you can only have one extended partition on your disk

snowtigger · 01-07-2007, 10:14 AM

You can only have 1 extended partition on a disk.

Because of the way it was all designed, way back when 20Mb hard drives were considered huge. You can only have 4 partitions on a drive, but one of these can be an extended partition which can hold logical partitions.

So it would go like this

Code:

sda1  primary
sda2  primary
sda2  primary
sda4  extended
       \sda5 logical
       \sda6 logical
       \you can then carry on, there is a maximum but i can't remember how many.

dasy2k1 · 01-07-2007, 10:31 AM

ah well
the idea was to have seperate sets of logical partitions to keep seperarte distrabutions in mabie i cna achive the same thing with LVM