Excerpt from "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>:

> (The extended partitions were made under Debian Linux. I don't know if
> they were created correctly.)

> What is the correct tool for easily reviewing, modifying or creating
> extended DOS partitions?

I have worked with MS-DOS (4, 5 and 6.22), DR-DOS 7.03, OS/2 1.3 through Warp 4,
Linux (Slackware, also Debian), and NetBSD.  Worst fdisk was in MS-DOS; fdisk in
OS/2 was a big improvement, but fdisk or cfdisk in Linux is much better still,
better than the fdisk in NetBSD 1.5.2 (sorry to say).  fdisk or cfdisk in Linux
can tag a partition as type A9 (hex) for NetBSD even though Linux will not
recognize this type.  I used these fdisks all from text mode, never from GUI.
Newer versions of Linux fdisk have no problem with hard disks > 8 GB.