[parted-devel] nested extended dos partitions

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Karel Zak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a way how to test fdisk and [k]partx code that read
>  nested extended partitions (ext.partition in ext.partition). It
> seems that parted and fdisk are not able to create such odd PT
> layout. Any idea?
> 
> I'd like to confirm that the offset of all nested extended
> partitions is always the same as offset for the first extended
> partition. (See read_table() in libparted/labels/dos.c.)
> 
> Karel
> 

Is this valid at all? I'm not able to find examples of this nor tools
that will create or interpret such a PT (e.g. the kernel msdos code
doesn't handle this and contains a comment that so far there seems to
be no reason to allow this).

Regards,
Bryn.