On 07/13/2017 05:29 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> /dev/sdd4 206895104 488396799 281501696 134.2G f W95
Ext'd (LBA)
Well, yes. A DOS disk (not-GPT) can only have four primary
partitions.
If you're going to have more than four, then at least one must be
an extended partition (typically the fourth partition or /dev/sdd4) and
any partitions above 4 live INSIDE partition 4. In the above example,
/dev/sdd4 should be type 5 (EXTENDED), then /dev/sdd5 and /dev/sdd6
would live inside /dev/sdd4.
I think those partition types are equivalent, but that's definitely the
least of the problems there.