I recently bought a new 1 TB HDD.
I used gpart to partition the drive into about 15 logical partitions inside one extended partition. Then I installed around 15 OS on each logical partition of the extended partition.
When I boot with grub they all boot and work fine so I have a 15 bootable OS on one HDD.
What I don't fully understand is what the different partitions are. (i.e what the differences in using one or the other ...etc)
What I know is extended partition is a container for logical partitions.
logical partitions contain the actual filesystem , os , data ,...etc
The mbr (first sector of the HDD) holds the partition table which has room for only 4 different partitions
But what is the difference between a primary partition and an extended partition ?
(is it that an extended partition is just a special primary partition that allows you to contain more partitions then 4 , is that all it is )
Is there any max for the amount of logical partitions in a extended partition or can you have as many as you want?
I used gpart to partition the drive into about 15 logical partitions inside one extended partition. Then I installed around 15 OS on each logical partition of the extended partition.
When I boot with grub they all boot and work fine so I have a 15 bootable OS on one HDD.
What I don't fully understand is what the different partitions are. (i.e what the differences in using one or the other ...etc)
What I know is extended partition is a container for logical partitions.
logical partitions contain the actual filesystem , os , data ,...etc
The mbr (first sector of the HDD) holds the partition table which has room for only 4 different partitions
But what is the difference between a primary partition and an extended partition ?
(is it that an extended partition is just a special primary partition that allows you to contain more partitions then 4 , is that all it is )
Is there any max for the amount of logical partitions in a extended partition or can you have as many as you want?