You are right. In GPT, they are just called partitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
The whole reason there is primary, extended and logical partitions on legacy
disk partition tables is because there was not a perceived need for >4
partitions. As hard disk size grows, BIOS is enhanced to create extended
partitions to go around the limitation. The 4 primary partition limit is
there for backward compatibility and has been stuck since.
Best regards,
Hanxue
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar
wrote:
> Hi,
> I just want to ask about the limit of primary partition. As I refer to this
> page
>
> http://sfdoccentral.symantec.com/vom/4.0/win_unix/html/vom_winadm_addon_users/SFW_VOM40/NewPartitionHeader.htm
>
> "An MBR disk can contain up to four primary partitions"
> "A GPT disk can contain a maximum of 128 primary partitions."
>
> I understand the term "primary" here because only MBR makes the
> primary/extended/logical distinction. GPT supports 128 partitions by
> default but as I understand it doesn't called primary partitions.
> Symantec could be wrong. Could you please enlighten me?
>
>
> Thank you,
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