Submitted 31-May-00 by Charles Curley:
| Logical partitions are contained within extended partitions. I conjecture
| that you can have up to 16 (64 total possible partitions divided by 4
| possible extended partitions) logical partitions to an extended partition,
| but have never tested this.
Each extended partition table is limited in the same manner as the
primary (i.e. 4 partitions), but nothing prevents you from creating
extended partitions inside extended partitions. Linux (and most other
operating systems) work around this little bugger by ``Daisy
chaining'' the logical partitions.
If you look at the raw partiton data, you will discover that each
logical partition actually resides in an extended partition of its
own, effectively allowing the use of up to the hardware limit in a
single extended partition.
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