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media is larger than the maximum allowed size for a FAT16 partition.
(Many implementations limit FAT16 partitions to 2 GB. Another solution
for large-capacity media is to use FAT32.) MS-DOS allows only one pri-
mary partition but supports extended partitions. Possibly because of this
limitation, some formatting routines use extended partitioning for a second
or third partition even though one partition table could hold all of the infor-
Figure 7-3: With extended partitions, a device can have more than four
partitions.
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