Figure: Boot configured on a primary partition, and root and swap configured in the extended partition shows an example of a supported layout with boot configured on a primary partition, and root and swap configured in the extended partition.
Figure: Boot configured on a primary partition, and root and swap configured in the extended partition
Two primary partitions are in use by /boot and an extended partition that contains the root file system and swap area. A new logical partition can be created for the private region by taking space from the end of the swap partition.