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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:13:06 +0200
From:      Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Paritioning scheme on MBR disk doubts
Message-ID:  <20210827071306.34e90c17@archlinux>
In-Reply-To: <20210826203921.0d3537684706867aef1e30f9@sohara.org>
References:  <MW4PR01MB640175FEDE09CAD451A9AA0BC4C79@MW4PR01MB6401.prod.exchangelabs.com> <20210826203921.0d3537684706867aef1e30f9@sohara.org>

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:39:21 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>Unless MBR has changed since I last looked there could only be one
>extended partition(slice) and it had to be the fourth. Other than that
>this should work.

Sometimes limits are not caused by the MBR. Some limits are probably
caused by partitioning tools, bootloaders, operating systems or are just
an issue of linguistic usage.



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