On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:49:28AM -0700, Simbarashe Mhondiwa wrote:
> I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a difficult in fully explaining thwe difference between primary partition and extended partition would you please add more light to it for me please.
> Hope to hear from you so soon!
you can generally have four primary partitions on a disk. This can
often not be enough partitions. So if you flag one of those partitions
as an extended partition, then you can put *more* partitions within
that one.
| Partition 1 | Partition 2 | Partition 3 | Partition 4 |
| ext1 | ext2 | ext3 |
hth
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