Frank van der Linden writes:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 04:15:15PM +0100, Thilo Manske wrote:
> > The other partitions are (in DOS-terms) "extended partitions", the kernel
> > doesn't know/care about those.
> 
> Correct; I still need to integrate a patch that deals with this. It's
> on my before-1.5 list.

They're not necessarily extended partitions.  Even though DOS fdisk won't
allow creation of more than 1 primary partition, other partitioning tools
certainly don't have this arbitrary limit.

-Andrew
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