[Novices] Hard Drive Partitioning

[Bruce Smith]

> What is the difference between a logical partition and a primary
> partition?  

A hard drive has four primary partitions.  You can make one or more
secondary partitions that contains more logical partitions.  That allows
more than four total partitions.

> And does it apply to Windows only or to both Windows and Linux?

Both.

Each partition has a "type", which is a code which tells how the
partition is formatted.  (FAT32, Linux, Swap, LVM, ...)  But I digress.

 - BS