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Primary partitions vs Logical Partitions

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Your article on manual disk partitioning (http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/04/manual-disk-partitioning-guide-for-ubuntu-11-04/) mentions to use primary partitions. I earlier chose logical partitions instead (dual boot with Win7).... is there any functional difference?

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  1. SSY on Jul 03, 2011

    Unallocated – unallocated space – this is how your hard drive arrives from the factory

    Primary partition – a primary partition can be used to boot an Operating System. Your Windows OS is installed on a primary partition.

    Extended partition – an extended partition is used to hold logical drives.

    Logical drives – logical drives hold files unrelated to the Operating System – pretty much everything else on your computer – data, audio, video, etc.

    Taken from: http://www.werockyourweb.com/primary-vs-extended-logical-partition

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