The most important point is to establish whether you will even need to create a partition, or, if you can just create a volume on your Mac.

When you want to format a hard drive, it helps to know the difference between a partition and a drive.

When you create "Logical Partitions" within the "Extended Partition", Linux (and GRUB) start naming them after the four reserved names.

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...