Paritioning scheme on MBR disk doubts

[Javier]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:53:25 +0200
Christian Groessler <chris at groessler.org> wrote:

> "loads"?

Hi,

Yep :), I always had more than 4, way more than 4.


> If I remember correctly, an extended partition can also only hold 4 
> partitions. Of which one in turn can again be an extended partition 
> which can hold 4 partitions. Of which one in turn can again be an 
> extended partition... etc
>
> But I don't know if that is supported by current OSes.


:-?

If it had been that limitation at any time might be decades ago.

I always (over 2 decades) had a bunch of logical in an extended
partition, following that is was allowed.

Wikipedia, if it is trustable, agrees too :-?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record

Anyway, I never had any problem.

Regards.