On Nov 1, Michael C. Richardson wrote
> [...] 
>   Where does an extended partition start? I imagine that some number
> of blocks are used in the extended partition to put the "slice"
> (logical) table. 
> 

Yes. On my machines it is the same as the space left at begining of disk for
the partition table (that is, 32 or 63).

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Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
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