[parted-devel] [PATCH] Synchronise MBR tables with GPT

[Olaf Hering]

On Fri, Mar 02, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Oh, yeah, one other obvious restriction - it doesn't handle more than 4 
> partitions. This is easy to fix, but I've no idea what the Apple 
> firmware does in that case. Cry, probably. Hateful hardware.

How is it supposed to handle more than 4 partitions?
I have not looked how the GPT label writes its on-disk data structures.
Would an extended partition be possible in theory? The metadata for
logical partitions are scattered all over the disk.