Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to one reader’s partitioning dilemma.
Screenshot courtesy ofLuis M. Gallardo D.(Flickr).
My hard drive is 1 TB in size.
Is there a way to split 09stephenb’s 1 TB hard-drive into more than 4 primary partitions?
If so, then just how far could you ‘go’ with the number of partitions?
The Answer
SuperUser contributors gronostaj and Daniel B have the answer for us.
In some cases, your GPT can be completely destroyed if software does not support it.
Yes, this is possible even with an MBR partition table.
There is a special partition bang out called Extended Partition.
It is essentially another partition scheme enclosed in an MBR partition.
Wikipedia has a surprisinglydetailed descriptionof this scheme.
So long as the boot loader resides on a regular partition, there are no relevant limitations.
Still, some operating systems may throw a tantrum.
