On 2022-06-10 12:05, Siard wrote:
Felix Miata asserted on 2022-06-09 23:25 (UTC+0200):
Siard composed on 2022-06-09 16:03 (UTC+0200):
A disk drive can contain a maximum of four primary partitions or three primary partitions and a single extended partition.
Every one of the four entries in the portion of "the partition table" contained in the MBR represent a definition of one primary partition. Therefore, all entries in the MBR are primaries, including the extended.
Several sites state otherwise.
"On a MBR disk, there can only be maximum 4 primary partitions or less than 4 primary partitions plus one extended partition." https://www.diskpart.com/resource/disk-partition-basic-understanding.html
It is the same thing :-) Many people, me included, consider the extended partition as just a type of primary partition. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)