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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:55:17PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:

> 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.

The only thing I can think of is to map extra GPT partitions to extended 
partitions, but as I said I'm not sure if the firmware can cope with 
that.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org