WH> Waste of space, but that's what happens when you cobble a kludge 
 WH> on top of a kludge to maintain legacy compatibility.

A man after my own heart!  (-:

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a modern FDISK that *didn't* align partitions to 
cylinder boundaries ?  OS/2 would have no trouble with it.  

A disk containing one big extended partition would need exactly two sectors
for the partition table, right at the start of the disk.

And there wouldn't be any place for MBR viruses to hide any more, either.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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