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Originally Posted by gillindu View Post
But now, I should make sure to have the slice starting at the same point as before, but, ending 63 sectors before the start of the next (ext2) partition. Or, maybe it should be 63 x number of intended sub-partitions?
I'm not an expert but I think the 63 sector thing is related to being compatible with ancient potions of the WinDOS universe. Also involved may be aligning partitions on cylinder boundaries, which really have only hypothetical meaning these days ... Linux' fdisk does it that way by default and if you do it different it'll give a warning message, AFAICT.

My sense is that 63 sector gap between the partitions should be enough. E.g., the ext2 partition has no idea what's inside the prior slice.
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