Marius Roets wrote:
My problem is, I really don't know when to use primary partitions, extended partitions or logical partitions, so I have no idea how to go about solving this. Any advice on how to do this, but also more general information on what each type of partition is good for, is what I am looking for.
Originally, there was only primary partitions, to a maximum of 4. This meant you could not have more than 4 partitions total. To get around this, the extended partition was created, where you could have several more "logical" partitions. The extended partitiion uses one of the 4 primary partitions. Linux doesn't care which type of partition it's installed in, though Windows insists on being in a primary partition. So for Linux installs, with less than 5 partitions, it doesn't matter what partition types you use.