Why did diskpart specify partition type 05h to an extended partition which is more than 1,800 GiB?

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newbie1canobie

I recently used my Windows 10 laptop to partition a 2TB SATA hard disk drive (HDD) which was initialized with the Master Boot Record partition style. In particular, I had used diskpart to create one small primary partition (marked as active) and an extended partition which contained several small logical partitions. When I created the extended partition, I did not specify a size which caused the partition to continue until there is no more free space in the extended partition. In other words, the size of the extended partition was nearly as large as the HDD itself since it was equal to the

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