";s:4:"text";s:3341:" Operating systems have no problem managing physical and logical partitions, so you're free to subdivide an extended partition into as many logical partitions as you need to install as many different operating systems or separate virtual hard drives as you like. Extend System Drive without Unallocated Space. An extended partition is a primary partition that has been divided up into logical partitions as a means of creating more partitions than the four that would otherwise be possible. Primary partition is a bootable partition and it contains the operating system/s of the computer, while extended partition is a partition that is not bootable. You can see it in gParted when there is this key symbol right to the partition name. An extended partition is essentially a container in which you can further physically divide your disk space by creating an unlimited number of logical partitions. This means a computer can have up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. An extended partition is a primary partition that subdivides into logical partitions. Every partition that is in use by your system is mounted. On GPT partition, all the partitions will be primary.