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K.Mandla
August 30th, 2006, 04:27 PM
Excuse my ignorance toward the logical partition, but I'm trying to pin down an answer as to why I would use one over a primary partition. I've been to wikipedia and a couple of obscure techie sites, but all I really want to know is ... what's the use? ;)

Jucato
August 30th, 2006, 05:03 PM
Because of some historical/technical reasons, you are limited only to having 4 primary partitions per drive. Extended partitions (a primary partition that contains logical partitions) were developed so that you could have more than 4 partitions. They're practically the same, AFAIK.

K.Mandla
August 30th, 2006, 05:12 PM
Okay, that's what I was wondering. I couldn't see why I would pick one over the other, but I suppose if I was making separate partitions for a bunch of different things, it would make sense. Thanks for the help! Cheers!

mips
August 30th, 2006, 10:30 PM
If you ever intend using BSD you need a primary partition. It does not play nicely with logical partitions at all ;)