# MBR partitioning

**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164
**Category:** SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164 "2020-07-22T16:55:44Z")
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### Author: ![Nikos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@Nikos](https://forums.suse.com/u/Nikos)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164/1 "2020-07-22T16:55:44Z")

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Hello there. I would like to know the number of partitions my disk will have if I use MBR. Thanks.

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### Author: ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164/2 "2020-07-22T17:11:16Z")

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Hi  
You can have four primary or create an extended partition (logical) for a total of 15, if type dos, if type gpt can have 128…

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### Author: ![Nikos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@Nikos](https://forums.suse.com/u/Nikos)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164/3 "2020-07-22T18:45:35Z")

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Thanks.

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### Author: ![Nikos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@Nikos](https://forums.suse.com/u/Nikos)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164/4 "2020-07-23T09:06:27Z")

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Eventually, I followed your advice. During the installation of SLED 15 SP2, when I reached “Suggested Partitioning”, I chose “Guided Setup” and decided not to create a separate “Home” partition. In this way, I ended up having a comfortable single partition of 230 GB. It goes without saying that I used GPT instead of MBR.

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### Author: ![Bhanushekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bhanushekar](https://forums.suse.com/u/Bhanushekar)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164/5 "2021-07-14T11:36:58Z")

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hi,  
I have seen dos disklable we can create upto 63 disk partitions. i to know its 15 partitions but how come we are seeing 63 in SUSE documnetation

[https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-advdisk.html](https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-advdisk.html)

If you need more than four partitions, create an extended partition as the fourth partition (or earlier). This extended partition should occupy the entire remaining free cylinder range. Then create multiple logical partitions within the extended partition. The maximum number of logical partitions is 63, independent of the disk type. It does not matter which types of partitions are used for Linux. Primary and logical partitions both function normally

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### Author: ![Andreas1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Andreas1](https://forums.suse.com/u/Andreas1)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mbr-partitioning/35164/6 "2021-07-14T18:29:54Z")

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Check with:  
$ cfdisk /dev/sda  
your partition table. Replace MBR by GPT:  
[https://forums.suse.com/discussion/14400/extend-root-partition#latest](https://forums.suse.com/discussion/14400/extend-root-partition#latest)