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?

answer

The first three partitions are primary partitions. The fourth is an extended partition that holds five logical partitions, making eight partitions in total.

All eight partitions are logical partitions. There are no primary or extended partitions.

All eight partitions are the same. They are simply partitions. There are no primary, extended, or logical partitions.

The first seven partitions are primary partitions. The eighth partition is an extended partition that can be used to contain logical partitions.