primary - the primary partition. You can do boot partition.
Up to not more than four.
In the primary partition, is not allowed to create other logical partitions.
Extended ---- extended partition, called a non-bootable partition extended partition.
At most one.
logic ---- logical partition, you need to carve logical partition from the extended partition.
References:
the MBR:
https://blog.csdn.net/songpeng26/article/details/105181186
partition distinction:
https://blog.csdn.net/iteye_1989/article/details/81600164