> For those of us who don't run only linux, we may have 3 partitions already
> setup for other operating systems, including DOS/Windows, with one of those
> as an extended partition. Now the real problem is that you can't boot into
> an extended partition, not to mention that I've yet to see an fdisk program
> that will deal with two extended partitions. Now that I think of it, Linux
> is the only PC Unix I use that requires one dos partition per ext2fs
> partition. Solaris/FreeBSD/NetBSD all let you create /, /usr, /var all in
> a single DOS partition.
I always used an extended dos partition for this (which can include
other partitions), but maybe I'm missing your point. Why can't you
use extended partitions?
And as others pointed out, Linux has disklabel support for the UFS
module, it just isn't enabled per default.
-Andi