Re: confused: primary and extened partition

lilifan2 wrote: > Almost all books and docs say that primary partitions can > "contain" extended partitions. And they can. My system has 4 primary and 4 extended partitions, with the extended partitions contained in hd3. > 1. I don't think primary partitions > can physically contain extended pa

confused: primary and extened partition

Hello,   Almost all books and docs say that primary partitions can "contain" extended partitions.      1.   I don't think primary partitions can physically contain extended parttitions, b/c we can set up only one primary partition as 20mb and  only one extended partition 30 mb which is large