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In message <20081226080146.GB25406@dragon.NUXI.org>, "David O'Brien" writes:

>> With flattening, you have ad0sX, with X from 1 to many.
>> Without flattening you get ad0sX[sY...], with X and Y
>> from 1 to 4.

That is wrong.

Extended FAT partitions are a linked list and you can have have
as many partitions as you like.

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