What is logical partition?
This article will offer a brief introduction to logical partition, like its capacity and classification.
Logical partition is a contiguous area on the hard disk.
Primary and extended partitions areDOSpartitions.
When you get a new hard drive, you should probably partition it before you format and use it.
Besides, it can have one extended partition at most.
In other words, it can support 3 primary partitions and one extended partition with multiple logical drives.
The active primary partition is theboot partition.
It is always the first partition (C drive) on the hard disk.
Of course, users can divide some remaining space into extended partition.
But, this way will waste some free space.
Therefore, the C drive is always located in the first place of the hard disk.
MBRhard disk supports up to 4 primary partitions.
So well, users can divide the extended partition into multiple logical drives.
The boot record of logical drive is chained.
Each logical partition has an extended boot record (EBR) which is similar to the MBR structure.
Linux operating system will name the partition from sda1 to sda4 or from hda1 to hda4.
The size of a single partition in MBR disk can amount to 2TB.
Therefore, if users want to use disk over 2TB, they need to convert the MBR disk toGPT.
