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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers understanding logical partition, physical partition Post 31936 by Ralf on Friday 15th of November 2002 05:47:55 AM
Old 11-15-2002
I would assume that a physical partition is like a primary partition (which you are very limited on the number you can have) and a logical partition is a partition within an extended partition. Although you may only have one extended partition it can contain many logical partitions...

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ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME
addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition SYNOPSIS
addpart device partition start length DESCRIPTION
addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl. This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device. PARAMETERS
device The disk device. partition The partition number. start The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors). SEE ALSO
delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8) AVAILABILITY
The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux January 2015 ADDPART(8)
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