Paritioning scheme on MBR disk doubts

[Ralf Mardorf]

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.