[Novices] Hard Drive Partitioning

[Brock Inglehart]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 12:20 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > 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.

Then, when I first installed Suse 9.1, and it saw Windows and suggested
that it make one for Windows, one for the swap file and one for Linux
that the software just ignored the 4th one?  If so, where did it get
used as default?  The total of my partitions = drive size.  Or am I
misunderstanding and that 4 "walls" equal 3 sections?
And where does secondary partitions fall in to this question?  Is their
a hierarchy here?  Primary / secondary / logical?
Bear with me, I'm trying to sort this out.

Brock
> 
> > 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
> 
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