Am 07.02.2008 um 10:27 schrieb Marcus Overhagen:
If the user created two primary partitions, he should be able to access them as partiton 0 and 1, and not as 1 and 3, with 0 and 2 beeing unused alignmentspace.
At least for MSDOS the partition number is an index into the partition table and not necessarily related to any physical layout of the data. Linux allows to create partitions in arbitrary order.
I heard Brian Carrier had some test images with odd layouts on Sourceforge.
Andreas