Question: What Is Primary and Logical Partition in Linux?
Contents in Layman’s Words: When a Partition Is Created Simply on a Drive (In a Mbr Partition-Scheme), It Is Called “Primary”, When It Is Created Within an...
In layman’s words: when a partition is created simply on a drive (in a MBR partition-scheme), it is called “primary”, when it is created within an extended partition, it is called “logical”.
What is primary and logical partition?
We can install OS and save our data on any of partitions kind (primary/logical), but the only difference is that some operating systems (namely Windows) are unable to boot from logical partitions. An active partition is based on primary partition.
What is logical partition Linux?
Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Partitions are created from Physical Disks and Physical Volumes (PVs) are created from Partitions. A Physical Disk can be allocated as a single Physical Volume spanning the whole disk, or can be partitioned into multiple Physical Volumes.
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