How many extended partitions can be created with fdisk or Disk Druid?

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If you find yourself needing more than 4 primary partitions on a single hard disk there is an option that will give you this flexibility. The extended partition is designed for users wanting to create more partitions than the allowed 4 primary partitions. The difference between an extended partition and a primary partition is that the first sector of the extended partition is not a boot sector...

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