Question

Gloria, a Linux administrator, used the gdisk utility to create eight partitions on a new hard drive. Which of the following BEST describes the partitions Gloria has created?

O All eight partitions are logical partitions.
O There are no primary or extended partitions.
O The first three partitions are primary partitions.
O The fourth is an extended partition that holds five logical partitions, making eight partitions in total.
O The first seven partitions are primary partitions.
O The eighth partition is an extended partition that can be used to contain logical partitions.
O All eight partitions are the same.
O They are simply partitions.
O There are no primary, extended, or logical partitions.

Answer 1

Gloria used gdisk, a GPT partitioning tool, thus all eight partitions she created on a new hard drive are primary partitions, since GPT does not distinguish between primary, extended, or logical partitions like the MBR scheme does.

Step-by-step explanation:

The utility gdisk is used for managing disk partitions on Linux systems using the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format. Different from the Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme which is characterized by the presence of primary, extended, and logical partitions, GPT does not use such classifications. The GPT scheme supports a larger number of partitions, and each partition is considered a primary partition.

Considering Gloria used gdisk which is a GPT partitioning tool, the correct description of the partitions she created would be that all eight partitions are the same; they are primary partitions. In GPT, you do not have the concept of extended or logical partitions that is found in MBR. Therefore, each of the eight partitions Gloria created is a primary partition with no distinctions such as extended or logical.